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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.

10/03/2008

When Will We Learn? The Many Failings of Abstinence-Only Programming

By Brigitte Amiri, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project at 1:58pm

(Originally posted at ACSBlog.)

In Lesson One: Your Gender is Your Destiny, Bonnie Scott Jones and Michelle Movahed offer creative and insightful analysis on the constitutionality of teaching gender stereotypes in federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.As the authors of the Issue Brief recently released by ACS note, the gender stereotypes found in many of these programs indoctrinate students with a retrograde vision of relationships between males and females and teach students that their abilities and aspirations are circumscribed by their gender.

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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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