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

Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world.

This narrative illuminates need for students and clinicians to be well prepared to face ethically and structurally complex realities of identifying and responding to children.

Preventing bad outcomes for teens and their offspring was the impetus behind confidential care for reproductive health. Requiring parental involvement created an obstacle to the provision of necessary care.

Perinatal mortality indicators like the maternal mortality ratio mask social determinants of health and undermine reproductive justice.

Physicians should honor confidentiality whenever possible when screening and treating adolescents for sensitive health conditions such as substance abuse.

Testimonial injustice is an expression of racism that uses identity to undermine individuals’ credibility as authoritative “knowers” of their own bodies, selves, and experiences.