Oh geez I hate statistics.......

And the very last thing that I want right now is some helpful and well meaning friend telling me what other options I have.

Don't get me wrong - I think that wanting others to be informed is a truly admirable goal and I know that your heart is well and truly in the right place. I just think that with things like this you have to tread really really carefully.

For instance - my Obs has a caesar rate of close to 40% - looks scary. Until you ask him about it. About 25% of his patients request a caesar for whatever reason straight up and the majority of the rest of them are because he runs a high risk pregnancy practice. He is actually a fan of low intervention birth and very prepared to assist women go for VBAC etc. But the stats just dont show that.

I'm just not sure that throwing statistics at women who are already pregnant and have already made choices is going to be very helpful. The last thing a woman needs while pregnant is being told that her model of care choice is in some way wrong.

Encouraging your friends to be better informed about their birth choices or referring them to BB and all it's great resources is probably a better way to go - and speaking openly with your friends who aren't actually pregnant may be more constructive as it will help them to make more informed choices when the time comes.
Spot on as to what I was going to say. Statistics can definately be up for interpretation and skewed/manipulated to say what you want so I would not personally respond to that approach well.

Your friends choices for model of care may be wrong for you but it might be right for them. I would point them in the direction of some good unbiased information and leave it at that. And try to remember that even faced with all the same information you were faced with your friends will not necessarily make the same decisions you have.