Bio
Brigitte Amiri is a deputy director at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. She has been litigating reproductive rights cases for over twenty years. Her cases have included challenges to abortion bans and various abortion restrictions, such as prohibitions on Medicaid coverage for abortion, as well as lawsuits to protect Title X, the nation's only dedicated family planning program. She also serves on the Ibis Reproductive Health Board of Directors. Before joining the ACLU, Ms. Amiri worked at South Brooklyn Legal Services in the Foreclosure Prevention Project and at the Center for Reproductive Rights. She graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 1999 and from DePaul University in 1996.
Featured work
Mar 27, 2014
Religious Beliefs Don't "Trump" Women's Equality
Mar 13, 2014
Unsurprising News: A Majority of Americans Support the Contraception Rule
Nov 20, 2013
A Dark Day for Texas Women. A Dark Day for Justice.
Oct 28, 2013
Court to Texas: Abortion Law Serves No Valid Purpose
Oct 28, 2013
Health Food Company Must Provide Employees Health Coverage
Sep 27, 2013
Don't Mess with Texas Women: Fighting Back in Court Against Harmful Abortion Restrictions
Sep 19, 2013
Contraceptive Rule Lawsuits Tally: Women Are Winning 2-1, and the Cases Are Headed to the Supreme Court
Jan 4, 2013
The First Contraceptive Rule Case to Reach an Appeals Court on the Merits