Oooh, yes, I did miss the bit about her not being fully dilated! To me, that illustrates how little a lot of women trust their own instincts to birth, because the messages are getting all screwed up in our heads between well-meaning advice from people we know and self-interested advice from a lot of Obs (not all, I realise). I still can't blame an individual for that erosion of inner knowledge and trust in the birth process that is the product of decades of telling women they don't actually know how to do birth without the help of someone with a certificate and fellowship of a particular doctors' college
We ARE still in an age where the doctor knows all and the woman just does as instructed...I KNOW these women! There is resistance to it and some of us are working against this, but we're not the norm by a long shot, or the system would be like the UK's, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Canada and NZ, where c-section rates are lower because women have truer choice and greater access to real information. When interventions happen in these contexts, it's got a far more genuine reason than unnecessary interventions in the first place.
Anyway, that's my perspective. I don't condemn women who choose interventions, because that's not fair. I look to the wider context of what led her there and I'm not happy with that context in this country