Medical authority requested by women: delegating the decision
Women may turn to the medical authority frame by explicitly asking for
the practitioner’s opinion. More often than not, the practitioner will
maintain a neutral stance:“I’m not the one who will be holding
this baby in my arms. It would be dishonest of me to say ‘in your
position I would do it”’, (Midwife, France), which sometimes causes
tension in the discussion as seen from this consultation in England: