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

Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity.

Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives.

Most women requesting pregnancy termination have already decided to undergo an abortion, but some jurisdictions have implemented strategies to induce doubt and regret.

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

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

Some question whether plastic surgeons bear responsibility for promoting suspect norms of beauty, given that certain types of cosmetic enhancements reinforce common conceptions of normality that are harmful to society.

Physicians should not refuse to perform a medical procedure because of an emotionally charged reaction to the patients' behavior.

Physicians should not refuse to perform a medical procedure because of an emotionally charged reaction to the patients' behavior.