cesarean

Gabriel was born by cesarean section on 2 June 2023 and has been in the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh ever since.

Crain couldn’t sign consent forms for her care because of “extreme pain,” according to the records, so Fails signed a release for “unplanned dilation and curettage” or “unplanned cesarean section.”

The suit also alleges the longtime physician denied cesarean sections to patients who needed them.

Activists argued that exceptions for the life of the patient were unnecessary because the spread of antibiotics and the availability of cesarean sections had made pregnancy far less dangerous.

Patients with those conditions are also more likely to have a pregnancy that ends in miscarriage or premature birth and are more likely to need a cesarean section, a major surgery that is especially hard for patients with diabetes to recover from.