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

Abolition medicine and reproductive justice are synergistic approaches that advance a radical vision of a racially just world.

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

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

Unchallenged supra-geographic segregation perpetuates racial medical mythology, exacerbates myopia in health professions practice and education, and perpetuates injustice.

State laws prohibiting sodomy were on the books throughout US history until struck down by the US Supreme Court, which argued in Lawrence v Texas (2003) that the state cannot criminalize private sexual conduct.

An argument that the concept of judicious dissent can resolve the debate over a physician’s conscience-based right to refuse to provide lawful services.

An argument that an individual physician’s conscience-based decision not to offer specific, lawful medical services should not restrict patients’ access to those services.

The range of opinions on the extent to which physicians should attend to their patients’ spiritual lives and the arguments that support those opinions.

Recent legislative and regulatory actions extend equal protection under the law to members of the LGBT community.