If a pregnant woman doesn’t feel safe pushing her baby out, should she be forced to? In theory, of course not. But today Birthrights – the charity promoting human rights in childbirth that I run – released a report showing the worrying treatment of British women who request a caesarean-section birth.
Transparency about what happens to women who ask for a C-section is long overdue. Since its revision in 2011, the Nice best-practice guidance has rightly recognised that women should always be the primary decision-makers in childbirth, while also protecting the right of individual doctors to decline to support an individual who requests a C-section on non-medical grounds. Despite this guidance, Birthrights’ advice service now handles more requests for support on this issue than on any other.
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