In the interest of fairness to all hospitals and obstetricians out there who do not “allow” vaginal birth after cesareans, some brilliant (and very angry!) mother wrote this disclaimer for them. Absolutely brilliant.
Let’s stop and think for a moment, about the multitude of women who would up in arms if abortion was suddenly “too risky” or writing rx’s for birth control was suddenly not “allowed” for “high-risk” women. Ummm. Yeah. There would be a march on Washington, DC over it you can be sure. And rightly so. I do not support abortion and pharmeceutical birth control is fraught with trade-offs and health risks… yet. They are legal and as such have the right to protection until or unless the laws change. So also is the right to VBAC.
The ONLY reason women are allowing this theft of their rights to go on is that they are rended psychologically impotent by their providers. Instead of empowering and educating and **gasp** employing TRUE informed consent with their clients, doctors stand together (quite firmly) to say NO to vaginal birth after cesareans. And since, afterall, these same doctors “saved my baby’s life” by performing that prior cesarean in the first place… “Who am I to say I know better than they?” It is a play on emotions by a profession that claims to be based in science and reason.
Disgusting.
Dar a Luz Women's Care 