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Article: Soaring cesarean section rates cause for alarm. (Pregnancy & Birth).(women should be given information on the potential dangers of ceasarean section as well as its benefits)(Column)
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- Special Delivery
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Editor's note: These are the words of Deanne Williams, Executive Director and Mary Ann Shab, President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in response to the preliminary data just released from the National Center for Health Statistics that show the 2001 cesarean section rate reached an all-time high of 24.4 percent, and the number of women having a vaginal birth after a previous c-section dropped to an all-time low of 16.4 percent.
Cesarean section rates are off the charts and women are being duped into thinking that this is all right; in fact they are being enticed to consider c-sections on demand based upon questionable promises.
A woman ...