“Very important persons” care contributes to multitiered, racially segregated health service delivery streams that influence clinicians’ conceptions of what patients deserve from them.

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

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

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.

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.

Julian Savulescu's writing on conscientious objection is guided by an emphasis on the principle of distributive justice that does not allow religion to have a special status as justification.

The physician’s duty extends beyond treating individual patients to reporting public health threats when they are identified.

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

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