File under: WTF?

Now Salon has an article about women making the "feminist" choice of C-section over vaginal delivery. Aside from the annoying tendency of redefining feminism as a movement to give women more choices instead of a movement towards equality between the sexes, this article really bugs. I think there's something being left out in the discussion of the whole issue.
By the end of the article, I found myself questioning whether or not what I thought was true--that vaginal delivery is better and safer than C-sections, and that C-sections should be a last resort. Really, it's common sense. To put it bluntly, why cut a whole 'nother hole in your body when you already have one there expressly for that purpose? Well, this article gave some compelling reasons with stomach-turning names: pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence. I solidered on to the end of the article, even though I was turning green, and found that there are some compelling numbers to suggest that in the long-term, C-sections are less risky.
Still, I find myself suspicious. Labor and delivery are obviously really hard on some women, but that doesn't apply universally. It seems like doctors are right to be reluctant to perform a C-section on a woman who is likely to have a quick and simple delivery. I still think there's something else going on here, that it can't just be a sudden widespread agitation from women demanding C-sections.