C-sections+and+Social+Justice

 SOCIAL JUSTICE



According to Swedish researchers, a person who starts life with a traumatic and painful birth is more likely to end it with a violent suicide. Their study of adults who committed suicide in Sweden showed how people are born may be linked to how they chose to die. Complications during birth, long labor, a breech position and the use of forceps and suction were associated with an increased risk of suicide. If we are to really take such research into account while also questioning why the world is as violent and as hate ridden as it is, we have to consider in some way if the rise in c-section rates since the 1960’s is in any way related to the widespread violence we see now; in the twenty first century. What I know for sure is that there is a grave injustice being force fed to women from the medical community; this entity that has tremendous lobbying power and whose members are in bed with the insurance companies. The reality is Obstetricians are trained //surgeons// not labor coaches. Why are we putting our bodies in the hands of these doctors that, if given the opportunity, want to cut you open because that is what they are //trained// to do, and not to mention if they do cut you open your insurance company pays them four times as more for your baby’s delivery; there is no downside for them. Flex your muscles and get paid more. Where is the incentive to listen to your patient?

As women, we are having our options stripped from under us in our most vulnerable hour. There are some great non-profit groups advocating for women on this issue: Big Push for Midwives, Moms Rising, and Childbirth Connection. These groups provide vast information on childbirth/c-sections and are pushing legislation around the country to increase access to Certified Professional Midwives, who focus on out of hospital births.