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

How should evidence be used to interpret and inform whether to accommodate patients’ requests for clinicians with specific traits?

Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued.

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.

Principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence guide trauma-informed care. Care ethics should also support this framework for responding to the health needs of trafficked patients.

Pregnant women at high risk for heritable diseases need support and nondirective genetic counseling.

Pediatricians should not opt out of caring for children of same-sex couples due to anti-gay beliefs or bias.

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.

A medical student’s desire to practice the specialty that he or she finds most interesting should not outweigh the right of patients in a pluralistic society to receive a full range of legal medical services.