Differentiating between best palliative care options and the curative and palliative potential of surgery is key to developing dual intentional clarity.

Structural competency helps physicians address reproductive health disparities through recognizing social determinants of health and social advocacy.

Introduction to the March 2018 issue on global reproductive health care ethics in the 21st century.

An argument that the concept of judicious dissent can resolve the debate over a physician’s conscience-based right to refuse to provide lawful services.

An argument that an individual physician’s conscience-based decision not to offer specific, lawful medical services should not restrict patients’ access to those services.

With good planning and good will, medical professionals’ right of conscience and patients’ rights to controversial services can be both protected and accommodated.