Birth experiences are vital to the short term and long term health of mothers and babies. How does a mother care for her newborn effectively when she's drugged to the gills after suffering through unnecessary interventions? How does she care for that child in 6 months time when she's overwhelmed by PND and PTSD? We have ludicrously high rates of PND in this country compared with countries that are safer to birth in. Inductions, caesareans, instrumental births and the like come with significant risks up to and including death so they are supposed to be used only when this risk is lower than a normal birth continuing. Clearly using them routinely is dangerous. This is why the maternal death rate in the US is rising not falling as more caesareans are performed and fewer VBACs permitted. It's not a mattter of tarring Obs with a brush, it's factual statistical information which clearly shows surgeons are inappropriate carers for healthy pregnant women. This is why WHO recommends midwifery care and why so many countries (about 27 of them) have better outcomes than Australia.