Too posh to push? More C-sections on demand in UK (AP)

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CORRECTING NAME TO PAULINE HULL -Pauline Hull, who runs a website about elective cesarean child birth, C-sections, poses for picture with her children in Farnham, England, in this photo dated Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. Pregnant women in Britain, where the government provides free health care, may soon be able to get a cesarean section on demand thanks to a rule change. Hull has had two C-section births herself and says that doctors tend to over exaggerate the risks of C-sections. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP – Pregnant women in Britain, where the government provides free health care, may soon be able to get a cesarean section on demand thanks to a rule change that critics describe as the health system caving into the “too posh to push” crowd.

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