Come on, Selima N.

Now you want to claim that Edwards was somehow supporting "Big Medicine" in its quest to increase the cesarian rate? Edwards took money directly FROM wealthy doctors in the lawsuits you seem to be talking about. He represented people born with horrible birth defects due to doctors who did not recognize that the babies were losing oxygen, or, yes, that a C-section was indicated.

These lawsuits were about people who were mentally and physically crippled because of bad doctors. Edwards helped sue those doctors and got big money for the victims.

It is true that one unintended outcome of lawsuits like this could be that doctors would go to c-sections more readily, but that isn't what the cases were about, nor can you blame the lawyers who tried the cases; it was the families who decided to sue their doctors.

I'd be all for reforming the medical system. But to claim that what we need is to decrease support for the people's right to sue is where the support for "Big Medicine" REALLY comes in. It's like "Tort Reform" arguments which are dressed up to look like they protect people, but which really protect big corporations against lawsuits. If you really punished lawyers like Edwards you'd be opening up a whole new level of abuses by the medical system as you reduced our right to sue doctors for crummy medical care.