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.