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HTML

<select name="choices">
    <option value="first">First</option>
    <option value="second">Second</option>
</select>

<a href="#" class="first" rel="remove-link">Remove First</a>
<a href="#" class="second" rel="remove-link">Remove Second</a>

JavaScript

$('a[rel=remove-link]').click(function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    $('select[name=choices] option').remove('[value=' + $(this).attr('class') + ']');
});