We all have to make difficult decisions as we age, and sometimes we are lucky enough to make the right choices that will create our future. Men and women always choose what to do, what to wear or what to eat. But, while men have 99 decisions to make, women have 100, including the birth of her children. To date, medicine has developed only two types of birth, natural (or vaginal) birth and surgical birth (also called caesarean section) (Charlish). Mothers around the world struggle to choose whether to give birth naturally or surgically. In Brazil, private hospitals and their doctors are accused of not respecting women's decisions and performing caesarean sections against women's will and without it being medically necessary. In Brazil, nearly 82% of all births occur by cesarean section, but not all are chosen electively by the mother or performed because they are medically necessary (Khazan). Brazilian doctors prefer to perform a caesarean section because it takes less time and allows them to earn more. According to Simone Diniz, associate professor at the department of maternal and child health at the University of São Paulo, a natural birth is “bad,” “primitive… [and] takes too long” (Khazan). In contrast, the cesarean section is “considered quick, modern and in line with the preferred program culture in Brazil” (Miley). Doctors use drugs to speed up the process of contractions and to make it faster and less time-consuming for both the mother and the doctor. The increase in the rate of caesarean sections performed in Brazil, which represents, as previously mentioned, 82% of all births, was caused mainly by “unwanted procedures rather than personal preferences… half of the paper… .... their patients.Works CitedCharlish, Anne and Linda Hughey. Holt. Birth technology: tests and technology in pregnancy and birth. New York: Facts on File, 1991. Print. Frequently Asked Questions Labor, delivery and postpartum care. Rep. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2011. Web. April 29, 2014."Delivery by cesarean section." BabyCenter. BabyCenter and Web. April 29, 2014.Khazan, Olga. “Why Most Brazilian Women Get C-sections.” The Atlantic. Atlantic MediaCompany, April 14, 2014. Web. April 29, 2014.Lowdon, Gina and Debbie Chappington Derrick. "Cesarean section or vaginal birth: what difference does it make?" Cesarean section or vaginal birth: what difference does it make? Belly Belly, 2002. Web. April 29, 2014. Miley, Marissa. "Expectations: the problem of caesarean section in Brazil". GlobalPost. GlobalPost, April 16, 2014. Web. April 29. 2014.