Letters to the Editor
VirginiaL
Published Letters: 20 Editor's Choice: 3
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Granola Eating Homebirthers??
[Read the article: Who's too posh to push?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gimme a break. It's really time to save the watches from the stereotypes in this article.
The rise in C-Section is because of two things: control and money.Yes, a lot of women with insurance wind up under the knife because their doctors know that they can get paid, and make a case for convenience and scheduling to women who are too disconnected from the reality and consequences of C-Section to realize the risk they take in having elective abdominal surgery. Hospitals banning VBACs are only interested in the money, which is about ten times greater for the provider when a surgical birth is performed.
"Excruciating pain"? Please. Do the world a favor and stop planting the idea in the minds of women that childbirth must be painful and miserable, and maybe a few of them will stand up to the greed of the medical establishment and have natural, vaginal births, avoid maternal morbidity, and maybe lose some anxiety about the experience.
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This is unreal
[Read the article: Who's too posh to push?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well... at some point, isn't it reasonable for the hospital - if, as the original article suggested, they end up paying for a doctor and anesthesiologist to hang around for a potentially long amount of time - to have some say in this?
My response: It's called 'overhead' in every other business.
Or to put it another way, how much additional cost would you suggest that the mother-to-be is responsible for in this situation, where its her choice? $0 doesn't seem very reasonable, quite frankly.
$0 is quite reasonable, when we are talking about elective abdominal surgery. Would you go in for an appendectomy, just for the hell of it? How about having that gall bladder out, because it -might- be a problem later. C-Section also doesn't have the advantage of being a scopable procedure--it creates a large hole in the abdominal wall and subjects the mother for increased risks for other problems. I submit that you would not consider most hospital surgical procedures 'elective', so why is it acceptable to subject women to multiple procedures like this?
VBAC is not an absolute indication for anything other than the ringing of cash registers. You leave open the justification for forcing healthy birthing women into C-Section because of the incentives it would give hospitals to force them into it on economic grounds. There is no justification, medical, legal, or moral, for coercion like this, especially with the sad reality that the system is rigged in favor of the doctors and hosptials to coerce women as it is.
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The President Doesn't Have the Power.
[Read the article: Can the president order state judges around?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The power to make law to enforce treaty obligations rests with the Legislative Branch, not the Executive. The Supreme Court was correct, simply because it checks Shrub's pervasive assumption that he's the Emperor of the United States.
The correct way to enforce the treaty, therefore, would be for Congress to make the laws binding upon the states. Now we should convince them to actually do it.