Sentence examples for autonomy to decide from inspiring English sources

'The protection of reproductive rights is about a woman's autonomy to decide for herself her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature..

A trial by Harvard researchers in Lusaka, Zambia, found that only when women had greater autonomy to decide whether to use contraceptives did they have significantly fewer children.

Ontario schools give teachers the professional autonomy to decide when written marking is appropriate and when it would be better to use oral or peer-to-peer feedback," he says.

In the meantime, we believe that women who are trying to control their disease should retain the autonomy to decide, based on the facts, whether Avastin is right for them.

Under such a program, states would get a set amount of federal money to spend on health care for the poor and disabled, along with the autonomy to decide how best to spend it.

The decision was a major victory for a broad range of national religious denominations that had warned that the case was a threat to their First Amendment rights and their autonomy to decide whom to hire and fire.

The studio, which boarded the project at an earlier development stage but gave Gosling a great degree of autonomy, has to decide when it will go, and how big.

First, among women and men holding jobs with high levels of authority, men tended to be more likely than women to perceive that they had influence ("a lot of say on the job") and autonomy ("the freedom to decide what gets done at work").

For proponents of assisted dying, it is convenient to believe that the issue is a simple conflict between individual autonomy – the right to decide matters of life and death for ourselves – and a superstitious belief in the sanctity of life, the demand that human beings must not "play God".

An agent need not sacrifice her autonomy in order to decide to act contrary to her long-term commitments and concerns; acting "out of character" is not a sufficient condition for failing to govern oneself.

Numerous studies confirm that end-of-life patients place a high level of importance on the respect of their autonomy and wish to decide "when" and "how" they die [ 5– 7].