Millions of girls deliver babies while they are still barely out of childhood themselves and have little or no knowledge or access to sexual and reproductive health care nor the autonomy to claim their rights.
Moreover, in contrast to U.S. law, European human-right law places a substantial burden of argument on religious institutions claiming that their autonomy would be violated by applying to them laws regulating employment decisions.
I can't force someone to claim and erode their autonomy in making decisions, but I find it so difficult to see people struggle instead of claim because of this rhetoric.
Most anachronistic of all, though, is the country's treatment of two of its minorities, the Tibetans and Uighurs, both old, non-Han indigenous civilizations that claim meaningful autonomy in China's vast, resource-rich and sparsely populated west.
Substantive theories claim that autonomy is a value-laden notion.
Second, both Friedman and Meyers claim that autonomy is a matter of degree.
Following John Stuart Mill, for example, one can claim that autonomy is "one of the elements of well-being" (Mill 1859/1975, ch. III).
They claim that autonomy is achieved when the agent undergoes, or has the capacity to undergo, an internal intellectual process of reflecting on her motivations, beliefs, and values, and then revising her preferences in the light of such reflection.
In fact, some Kantian constructivists claim that their ethics of autonomy is the only fit for naturalism (Korsgaard 1996a, 5).
Mol's [ 16] philosophy of the logic of care relating to a person, who has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, reveals that the parents of a child newly diagnosed with diabetes do not claim autonomy regarding the care of their child nor the implementation of the education programme about the disease and the management of the technical kit.
During interviews, some informants initially claimed that their professional autonomy is not at all complicated by patients' demands and government guidelines for rationing, but during the discussions it became evident that many informants are fearful that they are gradually losing their traditional freedom and autonomy in clinical decision making.
