Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

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

Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.

The principle of double effect and proportionate reason can be a useful way of assessing actions as moral or immoral.

Several recent court cases illustrate how some states are attempting to mandate physician reporting of all underage sexual activity as instances of child abuse.

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

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.

Dialogue-based learning can help medical students recognize, acknowledge, and overcome their biases.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions on confidential care for sexually active minors and physicians' exercise of conscience in refusal of services.

The default principle—that someone is free to do what he or she desires in the absence of a compelling reason why he or she should not—may make it possible to resolve ethical disputes without recourse to a particular moral framework.