The phrase "ability to decide if" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or capability to make a choice or judgment about a particular situation or condition.
Example: "The committee has the ability to decide if the proposal meets the necessary criteria for approval."
Alternatives: "capacity to determine whether" or "power to choose if".
I (and my publisher) lost the ability to decide if, when, and how to publish as an e-book".
They argue that girls and women must have the ability to decide if, when and how many children they have, and to have control of the reproductive healthcare services they receive.
For Kimport and other advocates for abortion access, a woman's ability to decide if and when she becomes a mother is dependent not just on abortion rights but on a continuum of reproductive health access.
Although particularly outraged by efforts to monitor carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas linked to the warming of the Earth's atmosphere, freshmen Republicans have tried to rein in the E.P.A. across the board — including proposals to take away its ability to decide if coal ash can be designated as a toxic material and to prevent it from clarifying rules enforcing the Clean Water Act.
As progressives, we know we cannot have a real conversation about economic security that does not include the ability to decide if, when, and how to raise a family; that being able to plan a pregnancy has a powerful effect on educational attainment, career trajectory, and chance to define our own destinies.
A cloud audit needs to consider the point of time when the infrastructure changes and the ability to decide if this change is not causing a security gap or an infrastructure misuse.
We as a society, from Seattle to Dubai, must eliminate restrictions on a woman's ability to decide when and if she has children, because no woman should die from an unsafe abortion.
A child's future ability to decide for her/himself if and when to be tested was the least supported argument in favour of deferring testing.
Women want the ability to decide for themselves when or if they will have children.
Respondents over the age of 60 were more likely to think that removing the child's ability to decide when they are older if they want to be tested (statement 1, Table 1) was not a good reason to delay testing.
"There is a view that a nation-state will lose its sovereignty — meaning the ability to decide and the ability to act — if countries do defense together.
