right to choose

American  

noun

1. the right of a woman to have a legal abortion if she chooses to do so.

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Other Word Forms

• right-to-choose adjective

Etymology

Origin of right to choose

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

The Scottish Parliament has voted against legislation that would have given terminally ill people in Scotland the right to choose an assisted death - but what happens now?

From BBC

"We should all have the right to choose," she told MSPs.

From BBC

Under the Manx bill, terminally ill adults with less that 12 months to live would be given the right to choose to end their own lives, provided they met specific eligibility criteria, including having lived on the island for five years.

From BBC

Their question to critics is: why should someone who may be suffering at the end of their life be denied the right to choose how and when to die?

From BBC

His mother, who has lived in exile in Paris since being driven out of Iran with her husband in the 1979 revolution, urged the international community to respect the Iranian people's right to choose their own path forward.

From Barron's