It is a good post. I read it all. But it did trigger. I won't likely be the only one.

Very good post.

doctor was pressuring her while in labor to have a C-Section for three reasons:

1. More money in billing for surgical versus natural childbirth;
2. Less time in the Delivery Room for the doctor; and
3. He had to catch a plane for his Florida vacation in three hours.

And despite her contractions, this woman jumped off the delivery table and ran for the doors. She successfully delivered (naturally) a healthy daughter with another obstetrician in the hospital.

by forcing them into extreme health circumstances is never talked about in the news. How many tens of thousands of dollars of debt (hundreds of thousands?) are women & families now carrying because of draconian abortion laws? How does that affect the woman's future or the children she already has? Oh wait, they're already born so they don't count.

Are actually cheaper to do than vaginal births. But they charge more. Generating more profit.

It just doesn't seem possible that given a typical vaginal birth that major abdominal surgery wouldn't cost a ton more. ???

But this is interesting. Hospitals with higher profit margins preform more c-section births.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980096/

But this is interesting. Hospitals with higher profit margins preform more c-section births.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980096/

and other stress hormones in a physiological response of "fight or flight"... On top of pregnancy, this makes even the most cautious anesthetic plan (and it will not be, given the perceived "emergency" and CONTROL-based nature) far more deadly. And that doesn't even take into account ongoing complications like hypercoagulability (pregnancy-induced blood clot formation), sepsis, serious electrolyte imbalances, and more.

This is potential murder-- if it is not necessary to save the LIFE OF THE MOTHER (and fetus, if possible, but the Mother is the living being whose life should get priority).

I don't know how the family of any woman who dies in these forced, unnecessary, politically-driven scenarios would not snap and become violent toward whomever they deem at fault. Perhaps politicos might give THAT some consideration because I would not hesitate to show my sympathy if called to almost any jury in that scenario.


**My post response is not referring to a typical discussion of whether C-section is warranted in which typical situation--the debates which we've had for decades-- but rather the extremes if they are now pushed as REQUIRED in those circumstances where intentional miscarriage or abortion is suspected as a risk. I see that most posts on this thread are viewing it as the far more benign debate. I do not**