But it's coercion or bullied consent Catherine, not true consent. If a dr say's your baby is in distress (caused by induction or whatever) and needs to come out now, you are hardly going to refuse the section. The fact is, that women shouldn't be put into that position in the first place.
This is exactly what I was getting at (in a longwinded way LOL)

By the time my c/section was called, it probably was "medically necessary". DS was in distress, his heart rate had dropped to 70bpm and he was pretty well stuck - as evidenced by the bruise on his head when he came out.

But it was the events leading up to that happening that was the problem. I had GD, was told I had to be induced 2 weeks early. Had ARM, which led to a synto drip, which led to an epidural, which led to being stuck flat on my back hooked up to monitors. So by the time DS was distressed, there was not a damn thing I could do about it. I couldn't reposition to help him move, because I was paralysed.

So when I'm in that vulnerable position, with a baby in distress, sure by that point the c/s IS necessary. But had my OB not led me down the induction garden path in the first place it would probably have been very different.

Had I been left to go into labour on my own - and I could have been since there was absolutely NO evidence that DS was having any problems, or was big, and I wasn't on insulin - I highly doubt his birth would have ended as it did, since I had already previously given birth vaginally with no dramas.

This story is told time and time again around here, I am by no means on my own in having had this sort of experience .