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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a sad thread. Women need to wake up. This isn't about choice - we don't have good choices when we're giving birth. The awareness should be about questioning the status quo, questioning the medical establishment's assumption that c-section is always a safe alternative to vaginal birth when it's not, or that medical practitioners are doing everything they can to prevent them. Or the HUGE assumption that the way labor is managed is totally safe and effective, and which leaves women feeling like they had the power to prevent a c-section, because modern medicine couldn't possibly have been wrong. Stop blaming women! Stop perpetuating this misogyny and start questioning what you're being told.[/quote]

But... YOU seem to be blaming women: "women need to wake up!" No. If c-sections are a public health issue, then doctors and medical schools should be tackling it. Don't make it about individual women questioning and doubting their healthcare providers during a very vulnerable time.[/quote]
What do you mean "if"?!?!? 
Of course it's a public health crisis.[/quote]

No, a crisis would be high rates of maternal or infant death, or infection, or other morbidities. The mode of delivery itself is not a crisis unless you subscribe to the value judgement that vaginal birth is superior to C-section. [/quote]

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