make one's own
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The two nonprofits and four women, including two obstetricians, who sued also argued that the ban violated a 2012 state constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to make one’s own healthcare decisions.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
One should never make one’s own birthday cake; it should arrive by the magic that is love, floating through the air with candles glowing, accompanied by a song sung in one’s honor.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Areas where the ban appears to violate the Wyoming constitution include a 2012 amendment guaranteeing the right to make one’s own health care decisions, Owens wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
It was not simply a “promise of liberty” to be free from particular kinds of government interference, but to be free to make one’s own self-defining choices about matters intrinsic to personal identity.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2022
The figure is simple enough; to “buy up” means to make one’s own.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
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