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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Jan. 12, 2017: National Advocacy Update

Congress considers budget resolution, AMA-supported public health bills, patient-facing encounter codes 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
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Third-Party Reproduction

Third-party reproduction is a form of assisted reproduction in which a woman agrees to bear a child and relinquish the child to other individuals to rear.

Ethics
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Therapeutic Donor Insemination

This procedure raises ethical considerations about safety for the woman and potential offspring, donor privacy, and the disposition of frozen semen.

Ethics
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Gamete Donation

Gamete donation raises ethical concerns about the privacy of donors and the nature of relationships among donors and children.

Ethics