Of course, we don't think twice about this happening to women for one out of three births.

And then we tell her she has to it all over again for another child, so it shouldn't be a surprise many won’t. We've known for decades there's a better way. It's past time to get serious about it.

More cesareans are done in the US than any other type of major abdominal surgery, even more striking because we’ve made huge strides preventing so many other kinds of major surgery. Cesareans, or C-sections, occur so frequently—one out of three births—that we think it’s routine. But it’s far from that, and one suspects if one out three men were expected…