Crunchynut, if you think this thread is nasty you've not spent much time on the internet! This is called healthy debate, which is what the OP wanted. Was I supposed to agree with her, againstg my better judgement, to maintain some kind of fluffy facade? It's snide comments like YOURS that provoke bad feeling, not responding to a civilised debate.
Anyway, Deedee, I think you're actually overthinking somethig that's none of your business, and I wonder if it has something to do with your residual anger/disappointment over having to have a C Section. I HAVE read your threads, and all I can hear is "I think it's wrong and therefore it should be banned". You're not coming up with any reasonable and justifiable arguments why it should be banned, beyond the fact that it offends your personal sensibilities. I'd love to ban lots of things that offend my personal sensibilities, including small boys with 'tramlines', Kappa tracksuits and public spitting, but I try to keep these fantasies of a more civilised society within my head. You're still persisting with the negative and offensive language surrounding sections, by the way.
Yes, I think that if a woman really wants a C section and wants to pay for it, she should be allowed to do so. She'll be in a private hospital, which by the way aren't included in the NHS figures for caesarian sections performed, which completely nullifies your argument that somehow the (very small) number of 'lifestyle' sections impact on medically necessary sections. What tosh. NHS obstetricians are, in my view, far too quick to suggest c sections when they are not strictly necessary, I can't ever see a situation arising where they would deny or delay one that was essential because of 'stats'. Trust me, I've spent the last three months helping my friend argue her consultant into letting her have a VBAC, even though in his words "a repeat c section would be easier".
Women choosing to have a section birth may have reasons that they are unwilling to share or maybe can't even comprehend themselves. You can't just march around removing that choice from them, in the same way that it would be barbaric to dictate that women must not give birth at home, or must not use any pain relief even if they want it! It is not for you, or for anyone, to dictate what constitutes a reasonable argument for having a caesarian, and what does not.
'Nature' intended us all to give birth in a field without any pain relief, without any syntocinon to speed up the delivery of the placenta, without medical intervention. Man and modern medicine have improved on nature, so you might say we've turned our back on the 'natural order' of things in any case.