Letters to the Editor
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choices
As in all things, women should be allowed to make choices about their own bodies without society judging them.
I find it hypocritical for women who are critical of the estabilished medical community for not listening to women about their bodies to then turn around and tell other women who elect to deliver by c-section that they are unnattural and interfering with 'bonding'.
Women should be free to do what they wish- natural home birth or elective c-section without society slamming them. It seems like the 'you're not a good enough mother because you didnt do...' syndrome is now starting even BEFORE the child is born.
I'd find the message of 'let women make their OWN choices about childbirth without the intereference of know-it-all doctors' a lot more powerful if the film didn't then go on the bash women who make their OWN choice to have a c-section. My body, My choice. People who elect to have c-sections aren't 'too posh to push' any more than people who elect natural birth are all 'granola crunching hippies'. Each has advantages and disadvantages, which are up to the mother to weigh. Butt out society.