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Yeah right.
Published on July 13, 2007 By Jythier In Surgery
Women are often forced to have surgical proceedures they don't even want connected with pregnancy.

How come, when a woman wants an abortion, it's all about her right to her body, her right to have a choice, but when my wife wanted to have a baby vaginally, the doctor told her she would have to have a C-Section?

Where your choice now? Where's your control over your own body? How can there be a choice to kill your baby, but if you keep that baby, your right to choose goes out the window over how to have it?

C-Sections are major surgery. It extends recovery times to about twice the time you would recover in with a vaginal birth. Yet mothers with children previously born by C-Section are often not even given the choice of having a VBAC(vaginal birth after caesarian). It's ridiculous. I believe women should have the choice. I think, if you research the risk and understand it, you should be able to take the risk. Do you know what the risk is? I did. My wife did.

Because of this refusal to treat my wife as a human being with a brain, she did the only thing she could do - she abandoned the doctors. We hired a midwife instead, and planned on having a birth at home. She had a vaginal birth, not at home, but because she had been able to do most of the labor at home, they took her seriously about a VBAC when we went into the hospital.

So why can't women have choices over there own care? I don't know. It really doesn't make sense to me why a doctor would want to operate without a need.

Comments
on Jul 14, 2007
You do have choices.

The doctor has a choice as does your wife.

Apparently you guys were able to choose the birthing experience that you wanted. That's great.
on Jul 14, 2007
We had to tell the hospital we came from the midwife's birthing center in the next state over to not get her in trouble over it. So yeah, we had a choice - break the law or get surgery.
on Jul 14, 2007

Control over your own body has, sadly, only been found when said body contains another life.  In all other cases, freedom to do what you want with your body is regulated and legislated so that you have no say, only what the law says.

That goes for man and woman.

Need Proof?  Ask kevorkian and the medical Marijuana lobby.

on Jul 14, 2007
break the law


I'm really confused--what law did you break? If you don't like the treatment that your doctor has recommended (c-section) you are within your rights to seek a new doctor or care provider-- so I'm very confused about what the issue really was.