It is unconstitutional--and unethical--for physicians to participate in evidence-gathering against pregnant women suspected of being addicted to illegal substances without informing them of their constitutional rights or gaining their informed consent.

Physicians have a right to conscientiously object to procedures and therapies that they find to be morally objectionable.

A growing number of states is enacting laws to protect the right of health care workers to conscientiously object to perform certain services that are morally opposed to.

Parents' ability to make medical decisions for their children can be limited by state law if it is determined that the child's best interest is not being met.

Physicians need to perform their due diligence and practice caution when prescribing addictive pain medications to relieve their patients' chronic pain due to increased federal monitoring of pain prescriptions.

The most controversial component of the ACA has arguably been the mandate that group health plans cover contraception costs, which has elicited backlash from religious and conservative groups who believe it violates certain employers' religious freedoms.

Overturning this case’s precedent might result in clinicians claiming more religious exemptions and increased risk of harm to patients.

When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful.