Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts.

Many pregnant undocumented immigrants are ineligible for public insurance covering prenatal care. National and state policies can either help or hinder patients’ access to health care that is universally recommended by professional guidelines.

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.

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

The careers of four physician legislators who have been successful in combining their medical and political identities are examined.

A physician advocate who has taken public advocacy stances against the federal government while employed by the government talks about the conflicts that arise between medicine and politics.

A physician member of Congress discusses what led him to enter into the political arena and the various public policy issues he has faced.

Medical students' activism in various public health programs has brought benefits to patients and the medical profession.