Study Shows Steep Rise in Elective C-Sections

What's going on here?

While all the articles on this study seemed to avoid mentioning the issue of doctors persuading pregnant patients to have cesarean deliveries, not to mention the yuckiness that the general practices and enviornment of hospital births tend to be, one has to scratch one's collective head.

If birth alone has to be perfectly scheduled to fit in with everything women are doing, how are women supposed to parent for the 20 years following? Or is it a matter of women being that afraid of using their vagina⁠ (vagina: The internal passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus.) for one of the things it was meant for, or being afraid of their genitals⁠ (genitals: Body parts that are generally, culturally, scientifically or personally considered to be external sexual or reproductive organs.) , period⁠ (period: The fluid – or flow – which contains blood, from the shedding of the uterine lining usually at the end of each menstrual cycle. Sometimes periods may be less fluid and more globby; this is the state that is often mistaken for blood clotting.) ? It is, perhaps, like menstrual⁠ (menstrual: Having to do with menstruation.) suppression, like the commercial push to douche, deoderize and santize the female body, like endless cosmetic surgeries to "fix" what is natural about women's bodies, just one more nudge towards the entire authenticity, reality and beauty of our bodies, their design and their very nature going the way of the dinosaur?

(Original comments for this entry⁠ (entry: In a sexual context, when a kind of sex involves someone putting one body part inside the body part of another person, such as with intercourse. Some people use the word "penetration" instead.) can be found here.)