Hmmm, having had to take a young woman in my car half way across Manchester with my lights flashing (refused ambulance) who was suffering from 'twinges' at 23 weeks, only for her to be promptly laid flat on her back while Manch special baby unit faught to keep my god-son where he was supposed to be for another week and a half (after a long long journey he is now 18 months old and fine but it was touch and go), I am inclined to side with a pregnant woman. There is not one taxi firm I have ever used who will carry a woman in labour (try it and see, you won't get one!) Women with first pregnancies do worry, sometimes unnecessarily, but with no medical training so would you :) If indeed you are stuck with no car, and no public transport options then who are you supposed to call? I agree not all cases are needful, but some genuinely are - so perhaps avoidance of generalisation would be more caring? (a soon to be Dad).