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Is autonomy still central to medical ethics? -- May surrogate decision makers terminate care for a person in a persistent vegetative state? -- Should adolescents be allowed to make their own life-and-death decisions? -- Have advance directives failed? -- Is palliative sedation ethically different from active euthanasia? -- Should physicians be allowed to assist in patient suicide? -- Is abortion immoral? -- Should there be legal limits on how many embryos can be transferred into a woman who wants to be pregnant? -- Should a pregnant woman be punished for exposing her fetus to risk? -- Should physicians be allowed to participate in executions? -- Should pharmacists be allowed to deny prescriptions on grounds of conscience? -- Is the use of medical tools to enhance human beings morally troubling? -- Should performance-enhancing drugs be banned from sports? -- May doctors offer medical drugs and surgery to stop a disabled child from maturing? -- Should scientists create artificial organisms? -- Is an individual mandate to purchase health insurance fair? -- Is there an ethical duty to provide health care for all immigrants to the United States? -- Should new drugs be given to patients outside clinical trials? -- Should vaccination for HPV be mandated for teenage girls? -- Should there be a market in human organs?