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This article seems ridiculous on so many levels. First off, who cares why a woman would choose to have a c-sec if indeed she did choose. Why is it any different than a woman having a face lift or a woman having an abortion for that matter? It's our bodies! This shouldn't even be a debate. I've never heard of a doctor pressuring a woman to have a c-sec without some reason.
When I had my daughter, I'd been through three surgeries to remove fibroids. My excellent doctor explained to me on the last surgery where my uterus had to be opened that this would mean a c-sec for sure if I elected to have a child. I asked if it was possible to try to deliver vaginally and my doctor said, "there's a very small change that your uterus scar could perferate and you and your baby could die. Do you want to risk that no matter how small the risk?" No. I didn't.
Yet for some reason I've always had to explain why I had a planned c-sec. It's none of anyone's business but your own how you deliver your child. A friend of mine delivered vaginally and ended up with a hundred stiches and in horrible pain for much longer than it took me to recover from my surgery. I was up and around the very next day. With a nice bottle of Vicidon as a souvenir.
Why can't we stop focusing on whether we agree or disagree on women's choices that have nothing to do with us?? There is risk with any delivery.
Maybe a little of the time people spend getting bent out a shape over a woman's decision over her body could be spent helping the poor or doing your part to stop the war.
