Should c/s rates be published? Naming & shaming...

[sushee]

I was thinking about this in the shower, and I think I've nailed down what's been bothering me.

It's the term 'choice'. I touched on it before but will speak more plainly.

What it sounds like to me is that those who are going on about 'choice' are actually talking about wanting to choose a c/s. They talk about their birth choice like it should be beyond criticism (even if the criticism isn't at all directed at them), and over and over again feel the need to defend themselves.

Yet what about those women who actually wish to choose a VB? Who wish to choose a hospital that will less likely to introduce interventions? Who wish to be informed of their birth choices? What about their right to choose? By saying you don't need it when a woman is saying she wants that information, you're effectively inhibiting HER birth choices.

If anyone here is truly advocating choice, why it is you then object to women having access to information that will assist them in making that very choice??

Because I see the opposite of what you're fearing happening with the introduction of measures to make hospitals accountable - women will have a true, informed choice, be it to have a c/s or to have a vb.

So you can't have it both ways. You can't talk about wanting choice, but then say other women shouldn't have access to information that will assist them in making their birth choice.