C-Sections On The Rise

American Voices

December 2, 2005 | ISSUE 41•48

Americans are delivering babies via Caesarean section in record numbers. What do you think?

These things are being overperformed. I went in for an appendectomy and came out with a healthy baby boy.

Kevin Wells
Projectionist
I took fertility drugs, became pregnant with quadruplets, had a C-section three months premature, and my babies were on respirators for four months. Why the fuck haven't I been asked to appear on Oprah?

Brenda Kruse
Manicurist
Wait, they normally push it out of where?

Con McKay
Metal Worker

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