Having my choices taken away, my wishes ignored, and my dignity as a human being completely disregarded.

That is effectively what happens to women who go into birth in hospital without doing research as I did. Hospitals are primarily looking out for their own best interests first, and the emotional wellbeing of the women in their care is pretty low on their list of priorities unfortunately.
Oh Flea - you are so like me!!

Yes, ladies the emotional wellbeing of the women in their care is pretty low on their list of priorities. I BEGGED the maternity unit manager, herself a midwife, to refer me to a counsellor so I could talk about what had happened - she REFUSED and point blank told me that there was no-one she could refer me to. Another midwife at the hospital had told me to talk to the manager because she could she how badly I was struggling. Fat lot of use that did me - they simply do not care and I did told her I did not feel comfortable asking my OB - especially because he refuse to treat me as I wanted to be treated!!!