It's great that you feel respected in your birthing place, Kate but the reality of birth in Australia is clearly shown in our very poor outcomes. If all hospitals and surgeons behaved as per your very rare experience our outcomes would not be of concern to the World Health Organisation. Australia has the 5th highest rate of caesarean in the OECD and for some years we had the highest rate of instrumental births. It is researched fact that private hospitals and private surgeons have rates of intervention far exceeding internationally set standards of best practice. Only 5% of Australian women give birth without intervention despite WHO stating that a minimum of 80% can do so, and only 2% of Australian women gave birth with premium care last year. The rest had surgeons as primary carers either publicly or privately and concomitantly poor outcomes. Remember just because it's what you've seen or perceive doesn't make it true for the rest of the country and once you know what the actual statistics are for birth around here it's very clear that women are not respected and neither is birth. Countries where midwifery care is the norm have much better outcomes than we do. Fact, absolute fact as is my description of how the obstetric model functions. If a woman is being pressured to induce for no medical reason clearly there is no adherence to evidence based care.