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Health Alert: Are Women Being Forced To Have C-Sections?

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Updated: March 5, 2013
Health Alert: Are Women Being Forced To Have C-Sections?

Study finds mothers in low-risk pregnancies have varying rate of procedure

For expectant mothers out there, here’s something to be aware of: Caesarean deliveries at hospitals around the country are being performed in cases where researches suspect doctors are pushing them for liability reasons. A C-section, of course, is typically used to safely delivery babies in high-risk pregnancies and when the mother’s health is at risk. But that’s not what you’ll find at many hospitals around the country, according to a study published on Monday in the journal of Health Affairs. The rate of C-section deliveries varies drastically among hospitals, ranging from 7 percent of all births to 70 percent at the hospital with the highest rate. The study does not name the hospitals because they were not in the data provided to researchers. The findings were based on more than 800,000 deliveries at 593 hospitals in 2009. Although healthy mothers can request to have a baby delivered by C-section, the rate has increased significantly in recent years to 33 percent of all births in 2011, up from 21 percent in 1996, according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (New York Times)

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9 Comments

  1. LN13

    March 5, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    This is in reference to the case of the murdered girl and her almost full-term “baby,” Chloe. It seems to me to be a double-standard, to be able to abort without it being “legally” murder, but when someone kills an expectant mother, they are charged with 2 counts.
    How/why is it legal to do that?

  2. Arminator

    March 5, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    What do you say to wish an expectant mother well with the birth of her baby? All the best? Happy Landings?!
    See, “hope everything goes well” and “all the best for a safe and painless birth” are good but they inadvertently allude to the possibility that things might not go well etc. so that’s not ideal. Tricky!
    i think i’m gonna stick with “all the best with the new arrival”, something simple like that. many thanks to all of you and I wish each and every one of you all the best with the new arrivals!!!!

  3. vanvark83

    March 5, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    a.) Incest
    b.) Rape
    c.) Danger to the life of the expectant mother
    d.) Severely deformed baby
    e.) Didn’t use birth control or didn’t use a complementary form along with the primary one.

    Also, I hear conservatives accusing Margaret Sanger of being a eugenicist. Is this mere right-wing claptrap or could one verify this?

  4. David

    March 5, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    Is it illegal to park in expectant mother parking or is it just a courtesy parking?

  5. Goe122

    March 5, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    I am curious to hear the experiences of mothers or expectant mothers in a candid view. From emotional changes to physical changes to relationship changes.

  6. Orbit

    March 5, 2013 at 8:48 pm

    I’m looking for a good, informative book for my husband to read while I’m reading all of my expectant mother books!

  7. Jason M

    March 11, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    This is for mothers who have surrendered or relinquished a child for adoption to answer.

    In a previous question it was suggested that if expectant mothers who are considering adoption aren’t solicited for our children, then they would abandon or kill our children by leaving them in a dumpster or worse. So my question to you, mothers who have relinquished or surrendered a baby for adoption… would you have dumped your child in the dumpster?

  8. encyclopath

    March 25, 2013 at 2:46 am

    My husband and I want to adopt a newborn, but we don’t know if we should search for an expectant mother for a possible adoption placement or work with an adoption agency. We are not sure what resources are the best to use to research our options.

  9. Big Banger

    April 4, 2013 at 3:41 am

    I am writing a story for a creative writing class, and the main character is an expectant mother who begans to cough up blood. Fearing for the life of her unborn child, she checks herself into the hospital, but the only symptom she has is the blood.

    The problem is, I know nothing about diseases and symptoms and such.

    What are some diseases that might cause that, and what other syptoms would come with those diseases?

    Also, how would they check for the diseases you listed? Please and thanks.

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