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March 22, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

Find out how the AMA advocates for pregnant women and their right to informed consent about their options in NIFLA v. Becerra.

Advocacy Update
Supreme Court Building
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Pregnant women deserve to get the whole truth on their options

Pregnancy clinics’ misleading messages create compelling need to protect patients’ right to accurate medical information, the AMA argues in a brief filed with Supreme Court.

Judicial Advocacy
Pregnant woman being attended to by midwife.
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Questions abound on global inequities in reproductive health care

The ethical, social and cultural stakes of reproductive health care as a global clinical and educational enterprise present critical areas of inquiry.

Ethics
Physicians on panel listen to speaker.
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Physicians back programs to address maternal mortality, depression

Delegates also support comprehensive care that addresses the specific health needs of children in foster care.

Population Health
HOD Delegate speaks to crowd at meeting.
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AMA backs global health experts in calling infertility a disease

Delegates also support new advice on prenatal vitamin supplementation.

Population Health
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Feb. 23, 2017: National Advocacy Update

CMS contracts to small practices with QPP, maternal & infant health strategy and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Abortion

A physician may perform an abortion in accordance with good medical practice and under circumstances that do not violate the law.

Ethics
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Cloning for Reproduction

Reproductive cloning has the potential to be used in a eugenic or discriminatory fashion—practices that are incompatible with the ethical norms of medicine.

Ethics
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Storage & Use of Human Embryos

Ethical concerns arise regarding who has authority to make decisions about stored embryos and what kinds of choices they may ethically make.

Ethics