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right to choose

n. 1 (context public policy legal ethics English) The moral or legal entitlement of a pregnant woman to make the full and final decision either to give birth to her child or to abort the fetus. 2 (context public policy legal ethics English) The entitlement of a person to make the decision to end their own life through euthanasia.

Usage examples of "right to choose".

Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist parishes request the right to choose their ministers from a list of qualified men provided by the ecclesiastical authorities, which we know that the administration, because of the separation of church and state, cannot make the churches do, yet we ask it.

An artist has the right to choose his own subject-matter, even if he takes it from the nether pits of Limbo and Erebus.

No, not even for such achievements as theirs must mankind be robbed of the inalienable right to choose for himself.