And if that choice may be exercised by women after conception, then shouldn't men have the same option: to proclaim, legally and unilaterally, the end of their interest in the tissue or fetus or baby or whatever it is that sex between a man and a woman sometimes produces?
A civil liberties association and a group of lawyers representing refugees are suing the Canadian government over a law that allows it to unilaterally strip people of their citizenship and point to Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef as someone who could be caught in its crosshairs.
"Manufacturers of generic drugs that legally obtain a market monopoly are free to unilaterally raise the prices of their products".
With the other Coastal States unwilling to change their quotas, the Faroes in January said they were unilaterally tripling the size of their quota.
UK politicians will argue they cannot make guarantees about the status of EU migrants in the UK until similar guarantees are made by the EU about the status of Britons living there, or they would be unilaterally throwing away one of their few negotiating cards.
"What the NCAA did was something they have never done in their history, which is involve themselves in a criminal manner and punish a school unilaterally for the purposes of their own brand rehabilitation," Zirin says.
There are many moving stories of offenders seeking and finding forgiveness in the course of truth and reconciliation proceedings, and there are profound stories of victims unilaterally forgiving their unremorseful, unrepentant, unmoved offenders.
But increasingly, thousands of families unilaterally enroll their learning-disabled, emotionally disabled or autistic children in private schools — often with staggeringly high tuitions — and then seek reimbursement.
Newspaper publishers have pulled a flanker by unilaterally declaring their intention of setting up the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) as a replacement for the Press Complaints Commission (PCC).
If some are able to unilaterally impose their conception of justice on others, the latter will not enjoy freedom-as-independence (Stilz 2009), or will suffer the violation of their fundamental interests in being at home in the world, in correcting for others' cognitive biases, and in being treated by one's fellows as a person with equal moral standing (Christiano).
