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
![Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, & Elena Kagan. Photo: S. Petteway](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog-womensupremecourtjustices-500x280-400x266.jpg)
Mar 27, 2014
Religious Beliefs Don't "Trump" Women's Equality
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Mar 13, 2014
Unsurprising News: A Majority of Americans Support the Contraception Rule
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Nov 20, 2013
A Dark Day for Texas Women. A Dark Day for Justice.
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Oct 28, 2013
Court to Texas: Abortion Law Serves No Valid Purpose
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Oct 28, 2013
Health Food Company Must Provide Employees Health Coverage
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Sep 27, 2013
Don't Mess with Texas Women: Fighting Back in Court Against Harmful Abortion Restrictions
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Sep 19, 2013
Contraceptive Rule Lawsuits Tally: Women Are Winning 2-1, and the Cases Are Headed to the Supreme Court
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Jan 4, 2013
The First Contraceptive Rule Case to Reach an Appeals Court on the Merits