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It would be if we suddenly didn't have access to modern medicine for some reason. Like say a city under seige with power cut iff to hospitals
A threat to a handful of women who happen to be pregnant. Not to humanity as a whole.
A very cavalier take until it's your wife/sister/friend that dies because she cant get to a maternity ward in time. As it stands, humanity will carry on if society were to collapse next week. But if we cant safely deliver babies without modern medicine, we are in aerious trouble.
But that's not what OP asked / wanted to dicuss? The person you're attacking simply answered the original question:
"would it be a danger to the whole of humanity or our evolutionary progress?"
While I think the data alignes with your observation and your interpretation of the risks are on point it deviates from the point the person you answered to.
Humanity is not individuals. It's humanity as a whole.
A threat to humans to live without access to medicine which makes humanity more fragile and less adaptable.