In a surprising move toward reconciliation, two previously antagonistic support groups are merging in an attempt to increase the likelihood of their mutual message being heard outside their spheres.

Both claiming to be severely traumatized by the same process but from opposite sides of the experience, mothers of children delivered through Caesarian Section and children who entered the world that way have often been at loggerheads.

As moderator on one of the Webgroups formed in 2005 said, "Intense focus on resentment and regrets have kept our groups notoriously distant for the past years, and the ranchor ran deep and wide, but recently we realized that we weren't having any luck getting anyone else to listen to our mutual cause."

The cause, according to the website C-Secs-Suck (CSS), the group founded by "mothers who suffered the pain and indignity of surgical birth without benefit of knowing the long-term effects", is described as: Working to eliminate the practice of C-Sections by educating pregnant women in the real motivation behind scheduled birth ... golf is one ... encouraging them not to fall prey to suggestions of ease or overemphasis on labor and delivery discomfort, and by forcing the medical establishment to wait for delivery the natural way."

The group of adult C-section-birthed people, Hey Too Brutal ... the name is a takeoff on the classic line for betrayal, Et tu, Brute? ... puts the effort to join up with the mothers this way:

Yes, we were robbed of the only opportunity we'll ever have to enter the world naturally, enjoying the rush of birthing hormones that we will never know, embracing the thrill of accomplishment that comes with emerging from the womb through muscular contractions and your own hard work.

Our mothers chose not to work with us in our deliveries. They opted out of the most important dance we could have had together and left our welcome to cold steel and surgical precision.

We have come to understand, however, that sometimes this may not have been entirely their fault, so we are coming together to a place where they can share their stories of decisions made under pressure and we can teach them about the pain we've been living with ever since.

Together, hopefully, we can keep others from making the same birth-altering decision and save future generations from suffering as we do.

Adding, "Of course, we understand that some C-sections might be necessary, and in cases of preeclampsia and such where mother, child or both are likely to die, C-sections may be warranted."

"Mothers and Children With Scars" (MACWS), as the new group is called, plans to promote it's now mutual agenda across America with a series of "Womb Not Wound" rallies that will kick off with the theme song both groups have embraced, "The First Cut is the Deepest", as well as a launch of their new website and a national phone line where C-section mothers and C-section-birthed children of all ages can get support for their ongoing trauma.

This post is a satire.