Mistakes and lessons from AMA history situate the AMA now for antiracist leadership in the health care sector.

Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

When clinicians engage surrogates in video calls showing the patient’s body, several competing ethical questions must be considered.

Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss what clinicians need to know about changes to the post-June 2022 legal, ethical, and clinical landscape of abortion care in the US.

Clinicians using governing authority to make public health policy are ethically obliged to draw upon scientific and clinical information that accords professional standards.

This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients.

Clinicians in Catholic health care institutions cannot prescribe contraceptives for pregnancy prevention under a false diagnosis without committing fraud and contravening doctrine. Referrals are one option the authors consider for navigating patient requests for contraception.

Pediatricians should not opt out of caring for children of same-sex couples due to anti-gay beliefs or bias.

A substantial proportion of patients seen by physicians have had an abortion or will have one in the future, yet acquiring the necessary skills to care for 30 percent of the female patient population has been made challenging for future physicians by a number of laws and amendments.

Should couples undergoing IVF be allowed to request sex selection for nonmedical so-called family balancing?