 Informed consent requires that a patient be able to make a meaningful decision for herself. But this is just the pre-requisite. If the individual has capacity then he or she must be given all relevant information, and then he or she must make a free or voluntary decision. Voluntariness is complicated terrain, and most of the discussion of voluntariness in informed consent has focused on the sorts of illegitimate behaviors by other people that can undermine voluntariness: force, coercion (threats) and undue inducement (Hawkins &amp; Emanuel 2005).