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Re:Why Is Giving Birth So Hard? Revisiting the 'Obstetrical ... by up_and_up on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:54PM (#15925499)
Follow the money?

On one side, I believe Doctors get paid more by performing a C-section. [1]

On the other, it may involve less risk, which reduces the likelihood of malpractice lawsuits? [2]

1 - https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/dalexand/f...

2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3096673/

Re:Why Is Giving Birth So Hard? Revisiting the 'Obstetrical ... by leojg on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:12PM (#15926485)
This is true, at least in my country there is a high amount of C-sections and studies show that most of them are done for the money.