The standard response to historical figures, or information on deaths in developing countries right now, is to insist that this is because of malnutrition, or (in the case of Africa) issues like FGM.

By the same token, when a woman tells a story about how medical interventions really WERE necessary for her, and saved the life of her or her baby, the response is that her problems must have been caused by unnecessary interventions before other interventions saved her.