Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.

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.

Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.

Medical schools should have formal curriculum on the laws and regulations that pertain to medical practice.

When deciding whether a pregnant woman will take antidepressants that pose a slight risk to the fetus, the patient and doctor must each make value-based determinations about whether absolute protection of the fetus is more important than preventing the mother’s probable suffering.

Dr Julia Feinstein joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “What Might It Mean to Have a Right to Bear a Pregnancy Peacefully?”

This commentary on a case considers how physicians should respond when their pregnant patients’ health is physically and socially compromised.