Bio
Brigitte Amiri is a deputy director at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. She has been litigating reproductive rights cases for nearly twenty years. She is currently involved in numerous challenges, including leading the lawsuit against Kentucky's 6-week abortion ban and is a member of the team challenging Texas Senate Bill 8. Ms. Amiri has been an adjunct assistant professor at New York Law School and Hunter College. She serves on the Ibis Reproductive Health Board of Directors and previously served on the Law Students for Reproductive Justice's Board of Directors. Before joining the ACLU, Ms. Amiri worked as an attorney 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
Apr 3, 2018
Access to Abortion for Young Immigrants in Government Custody
Mar 1, 2018
Scott Lloyd’s Anti-Abortion Ideology Is Harming the People His Agency Is Supposed to Protect
Jan 11, 2018
A Fourth Young Immigrant Woman Is Being Blocked by the Trump Administration From Obtaining an Abortion
Oct 26, 2017
Jane Doe’s Ordeal Illustrates the Trump Administration’s Threat to All Women’s Reproductive Rights
Oct 6, 2017
Should Your Boss Dictate Your Family Planning Options? President Trump Thinks So.
Aug 3, 2017
Believe It or Not: It’s Been a Good Week for Reproductive Rights
May 12, 2017
The Other Shoe Didn’t Drop on Birth Control Coverage Last Week, But Trump Greenlighted It
Mar 30, 2017
Kentucky Is on the Verge of Effectively Banning Abortion. Yes, You Read That Right.
Mar 3, 2017
How Is Trump Planning to Attack Reproductive Rights, LGBT Equality, and Religious Minorities? We’ll Find Out.
Feb 2, 2017
Should Your Boss’s Religious Beliefs Dictate Your Health Insurance Coverage? Supreme Court Nominee Judge Gorsuch Thinks So