sure we've got choices. I mean obviously a girl can choose not to wear a hijab and still abstain from a lot of things, good on them. But there are also some who probably want to go the distance and put it on, and I'd completely understand that too. it's a hard thing to explain, but with it on you take these things probably a lot more serious than without it, generally speaking. but as a person who has been surrounded by all that you've described - my mother wears and adheres to it, my sisters do not but have begun abstaining from All That Will Lead To Hell for a while now, and then there's me who doesn't wear nor abstain, that's all I can say on the matter.
As with it being forced on women, that's a different issue altogether no? A lot of people are forced to do things they don't want to, hard labour with no wage, prostitution etc etc... I don't agree it being forced on a woman by constitutional law just as I don't agree them being forced NOT to wear it.