Clinical Ethics, Ethics, Health Care, Pediatrics, Policy
Why Bioethics Matters in the Debate Over Routine Infant Circumcision
Bioethics exists to help us think clearly about difficult medical decisions, especially when those decisions affect indi...
Subject: Pediatrics
Children/Adolescents, Clinical Ethics, Decision making, Ethics, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, LGBTQ ethics, Pediatrics, Policy, Politics
HHS Report on Pediatric Gender Affirming Care and CMS Proposed Threat to Medicaid Funding ...
The Department of Health and Human Services released the report, The Treatment of Pediatric Gender Dysphoria (herein ...
Decision making, Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Pediatrics, Philosophy & Ethics
Parental Reasons, Ethical Responses: Mapping the Debate Over Parental Reasons in Pediatric...
This editorial appears in the November 2025 Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Navigating conflict over medical ...
Health Regulation & Law, Pediatrics
The Case for Equal Protection for All Children Against Forced Genital Cutting is Moving Fo...
Hadachek et. al. vs. The State of Oregon (Case No. 25CV128224), the first case of its kind, challenges the constitutiona...
Pediatrics
Is Improving Health Really the Goal?: A Criticism of the American Academy of Pediatrics Gu...
This past January, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released its first comprehensive guidelines for evaluating a...
Abortion, Pediatrics
Denying Fetal Pain in The Second Half of Pregnancy Can Undermine Preterm Babies’ Right to ...
In the last few months, we have seen some trying to oppose abortion laws, arguing that fetuses can feel pain in the firs...
Decision making, Pediatrics
Optimizing Decision-Making in the Gray Zone at Birth
This editorial can be found here in the November 2022 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. A provocative Target A...
End of Life Care, Health Care, Pediatrics
All That Matters
We call them loved ones, family, when life is thriving – intimate, caring. We know them as legal guardians, when death i...
Pediatrics, Social Justice
California Clinics Ask About Childhood Trauma: Schools Should Too
In a public health push, since 2020 California’s ACEs Aware Initiative has screened over 500,000 children&nbs...
Clinical Ethics, Editorial-AJOB, Pediatrics
Fetal Therapies and Clinical Research: Beyond Risk and Benefit
The following is an editorial in the American Journal of Bioethics, March 2022 issue. It can be found here: https://www....
Pediatrics
Legal and Ethical Considerations in Allowing Parental Exemptions From Newborn Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) Screening
Abstract Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening is rapidly becoming the standard of care in the United State...
Publish date:Decision making, Pediatrics, Race
The #MedTwitter War: How a Tweet About Advocacy Pitted One Specialty Against Another
by Erin King-Mullins, MD, FACS, FASCRS I decided to tweet about my daughter’s trip to the ER to highlight dispariti...