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School choice gives parents the freedom to choose what type of school their children attend. There are many different types of schools that parents can choose from.

This website discusses the right for women to choose abortion or not. It discusses the long time controversy and supports a woman's right to choose. It goes into other views of people who are against abortion.

After the controversial awards ceremony that took place on August 25, many people who support the Television Consumer Freedom Act are demanding cable providers to enable customers to pay only for channels that they choose to support. Arizona Senator John McCain supports this and other changes that would allow more freedom for consumers to choose what they purchase from cable companies.

This article discusses how to choose a college based on desires and not pressures from people. College is a hard decision to make which is shown in this article and helps people through it.

This article discusses how to choose a college based on desires and not pressures from people.

The personal freedom of consumption. This site illustrates the debate on lowering the drinking age and giving young adults more freedom to choose for themselves.

The personal freedom of consumption. This site illustrates the debate on lowering the drinking age and giving young adults more freedom to choose for themselves.

This site has specific charts and information organized in any way you choose. It could be used as a tool for many research projects, because it includes wage differences in countries and between genders.

This site has specific charts and information organized in any way you choose. It could be used as a tool for many research projects, because it includes wage differences in countries and between genders.

The Illinois Single-Payer Coalition has a health care plan that can please both political parties. The people have the ability to choose their own health care providers.

This BBC web page gives a glancing look at what the basic constructs of atheism is and what atheists choose to "believe." It is a very simplistic and basic starting frame of reference

This article discusses the fact that while a person may choose to smoke, it affects others in many ways. A smoker may die from lung cancer, or people may die from the second hand smoke, and he talks about how the smokers shouldn't have to be in hospitals when people who are injured from non smoking incidents can be helped.

Pro athletes are not role models just because their on TV. But, should be role models if they choose to by the actions they make on and off the court.

Assisted suicide is legal in a few states and still debated in a few other states. Other issues such as who should be responsible for aiding in the assisted suicide and who has the right to choose assisted suicide is still a debate. Six experts share their opinions and experiences relating to the topic.

Women deserve equal pay. On average, they are paid less than their male counterparts. It effects their spending power and what women receive in their social security.

The 77 cent claim has been repeatedly refuted because it does not accommodate for the fact that women are more likely to choose lower paying jobs or jobs with benefits. Men on average work longer hours. Single, childless women in major cities earn more than men. Women obtain 58% of college degrees. Women are less likely to go into STEM jobs. Also statistics are easily manipulated. Watch TJ explain the wage gap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWAlg48fNwE

I definitely agree with this article. Even if some people like to think this isn't a problem it definitely is. For men and women in the same field regardless of what that field is men often get the higher income than women do. My mother is a major example of this and often talks about how the men in the same department as her make more money even when they produce less work that generally isn't that good. On top of that my mother works the same amount of hours and even more than average in a given week yet still doesn't come close to the pay gap. Of course, there may be inconsistency in statistics but it is definitely still an issue to be aware of because it still exists.

This article is about freedom of religion all over the world. It discusses the right to practice whatever religion one chooses, not participate in a region, and not to be persecuted by the government with whatever choice one decides to make.

This article is about the recent smoking bans implemented, specifically in universities, and whether this ban infringes on our freedom to choose. I think this is a very relevant topic as over the past few there have been more restrictions on where one is allowed to smoke and in some states even e-cigarettes are being banned.

Facebook Admitted to choosing which friends post showed up in your news feed in a experiment designed to see how the posts affected emotions and posting behaviors. This is not the first time Facebook has admitted to changing profiles and news feeds. Where is the line?

As a general rule employers are allowed to choose not not hire a candidate if in there pre-screening they screen for such toxins as nicotine. The employer has the right to choose who they hire but in most cases can not fire you for later becoming a smoker. American Civil Rights activists continue to argue that this can be and is a potential discrimination issue.

Breastfeeding in public when they reach a certain age. This article talks about the moms have the right to decide when the baby is done.

In this article it discusses people view on assisted suicide. People who are for assisted suicide believe it saves money, saves them personally from unnecessary suffering, and lets the individual determine their own faith. They believe is should be done with a physicians help.

A hot topic after the recent rise in mental health awareness is weather or not suicide should be legal/assisted. This author talks about terminally ill patients and, patients with chronic pain that has no relief. Should they be given the choice? How would we decide who gets to choose and who does not?

this article shows us the debates of assisted suicide I the sense of someone being hospitalized and being medically treated but has chance of dying. the article shows us arguments of if the person that being hospitalized is in great pain or on the last stages of dying they have the right to ask for the plus to be pulled. now reading this article you feel in sense of who is right and who is wrong in the issue and if these patients should have that choice or not.

This article talks about the causes of obesity in today's world. The article argues about the personal freedom and rights of an individual in the way they choose to live their life. The article also makes points about how the government can regulate people's accessibility to unhealthy foods and educate people on the fats contained in each item. The article talks about an individual's privacy if being obese and consuming foods they choose is a private matter.