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At its heart autonomy, traditionally understood, involves a claim that individuals should be allowed to make decisions for themselves and that those decisions should be respected by others, unless the decision involves harming someone else.
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Herring, J. (2014). The Meaning of Autonomy. In: Relational Autonomy and Family Law. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04987-8_1
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