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Some women would prefer an elective cesarean delivery to labor. The authors of this Sounding Board article review the arguments for and against elective cesarean delivery. They conclude that the available data do not support the routine recommendation of this approach but that they do support a physician's acceding to a request for cesarean delivery made by an informed patient.
Minkoff et al. (2003) studied this question.