Would you consider it a failure or success of mankind if we make natural childbirth impossible?

I’m taking a forensic anthropology course to better prepare myself for job interviews… Anyways last weekend we were learning about human bones. Our instructor pointed out to us that humans are one of the most complicated species when it comes to child birth. Our pelvis’ are very small, while our heads are very large. This makes childbirth, which is apparently pretty quick and easy for most species, complicated and dangerous for humans.

She pointed out to us that in the past, if a child with too large of a head was being born out of a woman with too small of a pelvis, one or both of them would die and that was that. Well that’s not the case now. Thanks to modern technology, both can survive with the use of a pretty common/easy procedure… the C-Section. Many people even get C-Sections when they really don’t need to, simply to avoid the possible dangers of proceeding with labor naturally.

Well that’s great and all, but the last caveat she pointed out to us, was that thanks to evolution.. we are now being born with larger and larger heads. The large headed children who’d have died in the past are now being born and going on to have children of their own, passing along their large headed genes. Scientists are actually afraid that we may see a time (within the next few generations) when newborns heads will be so large that a natural childbirth will be impossible. This would effectively mean that the only way to have a child would be via C-Section.

So my question is this. Would you consider this outcome a success or failure of mankind? On the one hand you have the obvious shame in becoming the only species on the planet that has to have an artificial birth. But on the other hand, you have aided evolution by allowing us larger heads, which theoretically will lead to smarter people (though there’s no guarantee of that).

What do you think?