Direct quote from the very first paragraph of the article: > The Birth Trauma Association found that mortality rates are lowest for women who have elective cae

Direct quote from the very first paragraph of the article: > The Birth Trauma Association found that mortality rates are lowest for women who have elective caesareans. The context is comparing maternal death rate for vaginal delivery vs caesarean. Here's a Telegraph article that goes into more detail, including giving actual numbers: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584671/Women-choosing-caesarean-have-low-death-rate.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584671/Women-choosi... From the Telegraph article, the maternal death rate for pre-planned caesareans is 3.1 per 100,000 women, whereas the maternal death rate for everyone else (natural birth plus emergency caesarean) is 3.9 per 100,000 women (and the original article gave the maternal death rate for vaginal birth at 4 per 100,000 women).