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.

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.

When a clinician refuses to do a procedure consistent with standard of care for a patient, legal resources can be helpful.

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

Transgender people planning a medical transition face decisions about family planning, fertility preservation, and how to access gender-affirming treatment.

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.

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

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.