Posted on 12/15/2004 6:23:37 AM PST by Truth'sBabyGirl
NBC is doing a story tonight on the risks of C-Sections. Gee I wonder why this topic was not brought up during the campaigns? Typical NBC
I am sure the reproter will BE very SHOCKED to find out that less than 1% of all patients getting c-sections are men and that this procedure mainly affects pregnant women.
And NBC will also be revealing the childbirth history of the program producers...
No doubt this topic is the personal crusade of a man, or of a militant feminist who gave birth "naturally" with the mother-of-all epidurals.
I hate the idea that this type of fear mongering may lead some women to feel ashamed, or to hesitate in agreeing to this extremely valuable LIFE SAVING procedure. Far better an "unnecessary" C-section than a dead mother and child or a brain-damaged baby. (Been there)
There are no doubt many situations in which a C-Section is by far the very best option. Several children in my family (and their mothers) owe their lives to the procedure. However, when there is no emergency and the pregnancy is normal, many agree that a C-Section is uneccesarily risky. I was just posting this because John Edwards was notorious for the kind of litigation that might encourage doctors to perform a C-Section to avoid litigation. In many of his litigations, John Edwards relied on the now-in-question scientific opinion that certain problems such as Cerebaly Palsey are birth injuries, inflicted by the doctor during a vaginal delivery. This kind of litigation gives a bad name to lawyers as well as doctors, and raises the cost of health care. This is not the kind of story NBC would have been likely to run during the election, which is why I posted.
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