The phrase "autonomous choices" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe decisions made independently, without external influence or control.
Example: "In a democratic society, individuals are encouraged to make autonomous choices that reflect their personal values and beliefs."
Alternatives: "independent decisions" or "self-directed choices".
Her findings, part of her dissertation on children's moral development, suggest that kids may learn empathy in part by making difficult autonomous choices.
Much discussion of biotechnological advances rests on the rights of individuals to make autonomous choices and on societal decisions not to interfere with willing buyers and sellers.
There is a paradox in Kant: Each person makes free, autonomous choices, unfettered by outside authority, and yet each person is compelled by the demands of rationality to accept Kant's ethical principle, the Categorical Imperative.
We argue that the conceptualization of informed patients making autonomous choices acts as "misdirection" which deflects problem solving and discussion away from a productive examination of the differences between healthcare system offerings and client needs.
It would be difficult to defend respect for autonomous choices as respect for an individual's will, if an objective observer could point to a social process, external to the individual and acting upon him or her, as the cause of the individual holding that will.
Decisional privacy protects people's ability to make autonomous choices.
Beauchamp and Childress (2001) have emphasized that their account of autonomy includes "obligations to build up and maintain others' capacities for autonomous choice … and enabling persons to act autonomously" (63).
"You need more than an autonomous choice on the part of the patient," he said.
There is further concern about the notion that sellers are making an autonomous choice.
Believers, then, make an autonomous choice "to abdicate autonomy in order to serve what the autonomous assessment has already recognized as good".
Such decisions "will be the woman's autonomous choice, informed by the physician she consults," as Justice Ginsburg noted.
