How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

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

Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued.

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.

The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care are the basis of Catholic health care practices.

The rule of double effect can help Catholic institutions determine whether terminal sedation is ever morally acceptable.

Direct sterilization by means of tubal ligation is morally unacceptable in Catholic bioethics but other procedures that result in indirect sterilization may be acceptable under certain conditions.

Catholic medical school education and the Catholic health care systems in the U.S. emphasize the moral growth of the physician and respect for the body, mind and spirit of patients.

Two bioethicists argue that prenatal disability screening promotes negativity toward the disabled and gives parents the ability to selectively form families.