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Jennifer
Dalven

Jennifer Dalven is director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. A lawyer with the ACLU since 1997, she has successfully argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the New Jersey Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. At the project, much of Dalven’s work has centered on protecting the rights of teens to access confidential reproductive health services. She was also a key player in the project’s challenge to the first-ever federal ban on abortion procedures.

Forty Years After Roe, the American People Have Spoken. Will Politicians Finally Listen?

By Jennifer Dalven, Reproductive Freedom Project at 11:12am

Forty years ago today, the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that recognized that a pregnant woman...

Why Are Michigan Politicians Adopting Ireland’s Deadly Abortion Policy?

By Jennifer Dalven, Reproductive Freedom Project at 12:29pm

By now, most of us have read (and wept over) the tragic story of Savita Halappanavar -- the woman an Irish hospital let die rather than provide the abortion that she needed to save her life. News of her death has generated outrage across the globe and a call from Secretary Clinton to the Irish government to ensure that women are protected.

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