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Mommy, What Did You Do in the Industrial Revolution?: Meditations on the Rising Cesarean Rate
- IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2009
- pp. 140-147
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As the cesarean rate rises in the United States, it is sometimes hailed as a move toward increased safety or increased autonomy. But the industrialization of birth may have consequences which actually decrease women's autonomy and strip choices away.