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Brigitte
Amiri

Brigitte Amiri is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, where she has worked since 2005. She is currently leading the project’s efforts to combat abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. Amiri also led the project’s challenge to a ban on abortions in Michigan, and she successfully fought prohibitions on access to abortions in a Arizona county jail. Amiri was previously an attorney at South Brooklyn Legal Services in the Foreclosure Prevention Project and at the Center for Reproductive Rights.

06/30/2008

The 8th Circuit Court Okays South Dakota’s Political Interference in Women’s Personal Medical Decision-Making

By Brigitte Amiri, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project at 11:30am

The 700 or so women each year who have an abortion in South Dakota go to the only abortion clinic in the state, where one doctor performs abortions once a week (three different doctors rotate that shift). After last Friday's 8th Circuit Court decision in Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota v. Rounds (PDF), those three doctors are now forced, by law, to tell each of these women that “An abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.” This restriction is just one more tactic that anti-choice forces have used to chip away at the constitutional right to abortion in what is already one of the most restricted states.

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01/24/2008

A Good Night's Sleep

By Brigitte Amiri, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project at 10:13am
A couple of years ago I was interviewed by a hostile radio talk show host -- a Rush Limbaugh wanna-be -- who personally attacked me throughout the interview, and finally asked me in disgust, "how can you sleep at night?" I can't remember what my exact answer was at the time, but the truth is that I actually don't sleep many nights. But not for the reason he was suggesting. I've l
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06/07/2007

Court Strikes Down Michigan's Third Abortion Ban Attempt

By Brigitte Amiri, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project at 11:02am
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit admirably struck down Michigan's third attempt at an abortion ban. The decision, handed down almost two months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on abortion methods, noted that Michigan's ban "pushed almost every boundary
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