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You Can't Always Have Childbirth "Your Way." It's Not Burger King.

When I first read about the pregnant Arizona woman whose hospital stopped performing VBACs, prompting her to plan to drive 350 miles to Phoenix to a hospital that would allow her to deliver her baby vaginally, I sympathized. I wouldn’t have made the same choice, but I sympathized.

Now, though, the Daily Beast reports that the woman painted minivan to say “Page Hospital, enter my body without permission ... Sounds like rape to me.” She’s not alone in her sentiment. The mom at birthtruth.org has an essay titled “8 years later” in which she talks about her “grief” over her C-section and reprints a poem from a mom who discusses her “mourning” over hers. Birthcut.com is full of C-section horror stories. The Daily Beast’s Danielle Friedman writes: “Women who feel violated by the notion or experience of a C-section often feel misunderstood—family and friends can’t grasp why they can’t just get over it and move on" ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).