Unpopular opinion - elective c-sections

[Anonymous]

I hope OP also supports letting any woman who wants one elect to have a VBAC attempt, weighing the risks. So many doctors pressure women into repeat c-sections and many women aren't given a choice even though they would be a great VBAC candidate. It should be the woman's choice. And I hope OP is also against pressure to induce for non-medical reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope OP also supports letting any woman who wants one elect to have a VBAC attempt, weighing the risks. So many doctors pressure women into repeat c-sections and many women aren't given a choice even though they would be a great VBAC candidate. It should be the woman's choice. And I hope OP is also against pressure to induce for non-medical reasons.

OP here and sure, I support women’s autonomy and choice generally. Truthfully I don’t know enough about induction to comment on that one. I do think there’s a difference, though, between a doctor assessing an individual patient’s risk factors and determining VBAC would be too dangerous for whatever reason and the current blanket policy (at least in many places) of no elective C-sections for anyone despite no/only minuscule differences in risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope OP also supports letting any woman who wants one elect to have a VBAC attempt, weighing the risks. So many doctors pressure women into repeat c-sections and many women aren't given a choice even though they would be a great VBAC candidate. It should be the woman's choice. And I hope OP is also against pressure to induce for non-medical reasons.

OP here and sure, I support women’s autonomy and choice generally. Truthfully I don’t know enough about induction to comment on that one. I do think there’s a difference, though, between a doctor assessing an individual patient’s risk factors and determining VBAC would be too dangerous for whatever reason and the current blanket policy (at least in many places) of no elective C-sections for anyone despite no/only minuscule differences in risk.

(Continued) that said, if doctors are just reflexively refusing VBAC based on generalized data, then yeah agree that’s not good and it should be up to women to weigh the risks.