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Turkey Turkish doctors face fines for elective caesareans

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WidowWadman · 13/07/2012 19:41

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/13/turkish-doctors-fines-elective-caesareans?INTCMP=SRCH

I find these news disturbing. Under the false premise that natural = better and protecting ickle women who don't know what's good for them from the nasty doctors who only want to make a profit choice is removed from women.

Who decides the threshold of what is an Emergency anyway? Will there be now an increased risk of damage to women and babies because the fear of legal redress means doctors will push for vaginal birth even if there are medical indications?

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EclecticShock · 13/07/2012 19:45

Law is the wrong way to approach the problem of 48% electives. It should be about informed choice but seems some doctors are making money out of scaremongering. Is that how you read it?

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