Is the narrow concept of individual autonomy compatible with or in conflict with Evidence-based Medicine in obstetric practice?

Rational autonomy based on inquiry and integrated in a caring relationship between the parturient woman and her obstetrician (principled autonomy) calls for responsible professionalism (EBM). The critical expertise of obstetricians and midwives is highly relevant to enable pregnant women to make rational, informed, and consequentialist decisions in order to not being abandoned to individualised responsibility.