I don't think that doctors necessarily "force" anything on women, but they definitely convince them that a c-section is necessary when it often is not. I'm definitely not saying that c-sections are 100% unnecessary - sometimes they truly are necessary to save the baby/mum.
However, often times the doctor uses a "reason" for the c-section that is not not medically valid. Mums buy into it because the doctor tells them it is necessary to save the baby, and you can't really blame the mums for doing what they're told in this case.
Statistically speaking, though, the c-section rate is more than double what it should be (per the WHO), so the chances are at least 50/50 that a woman's "emergency" c-section was actually unnecessary :(
I don't think that doctors necessarily "force" anything on women, but they definitely convince them that a c-section is necessary when it often is not. I'm definitely not saying that c-sections are 100% unnecessary - sometimes they truly are necessary to save the baby/mum.
However, often times the doctor uses a "reason" for the c-section that is not not medically valid. Mums buy into it because the doctor tells them it is necessary to save the baby, and you can't really blame the mums for doing what they're told in this case.
Statistically speaking, though, the c-section rate is more than double what it should be (per the WHO), so the chances are at least 50/50 that a woman's "emergency" c-section was actually unnecessary :(