'compelled to choose' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You would usually use it to express that somebody has been forced to make a difficult decision between two or more options. For example: "She was compelled to choose between spending her last penny on food or a train ticket home."
She was compelled to choose a man not only for insemination but for continued support.
He never felt compelled to choose between faith and reason, since both had such obvious appeal and such obvious limitations.
Compelled "to choose between one's family and the Revolution," Tvardovsky, like many others, refused to give in to "abstract humanitarianism".
We don't know why he suddenly felt compelled to choose between abstraction and the figure, having facilitated their peaceful coexistence for more than a decade.
Ukrainians shouldn't feel compelled to choose, for the sake of safety and identity, between Russia and the West — that's what Putin wants.
The Jews were compelled to choose between baptism and exile, and ultimately some 40,000 (estimates range as high as 800,000) departed Spain, never to return.
Albeit that, we were compelled to chose this particular experimental design since the literature does not offer data on exact absorption rates after hand disinfection.
The army compelled Egyptians to choose between the uncertainty of the status quo or approving an imperfect political road map they hoped would stabilize the country.
With the right kind of message, delivered with the rhetorical force of which he had shown himself capable, he could have made the Republicans pay a political price for their disgraceful political conduct, and compelled them to choose between either changing their ways or continuing to pay that price.
Remember what compelled you to choose them and why you remain interested.
But we cannot, as Ms. Bayefsky suggests, compel complainants to choose a particular procedure.
