as a matter of choice

In a postelection study, 58 percent of voters who flipped from Mr. Obama to Mr. Trump in 2016 said that they would support a law that would “always allow a woman to obtain an abortion as a matter of choice.”

Some of us are here as a matter of choice and some as a matter of circumstance, marginalized by immutable characteristics like race or gender identity or sexual orientation.

The Madness of England Football Part 2: for decades the national team played this way as a matter of choice.

“When followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity.”

In fact, in a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 32% of respondents said they rent as a matter of choice.