Bio
Brigitte Amiri is a deputy director at the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û'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 ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û, 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
May 3, 2022
Special Edition: Strategies for the End of Roe
Nov 2, 2021
Special Edition: Texas Abortion Ban at the Supreme Court
Sep 30, 2020
Victory: After Three Years of Battling in Court, the Trump Administration Abandons its Policy of Banning Abortion for Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors
Sep 23, 2020
Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System
Jan 17, 2020
The Supreme Court Takes Up the Issue of Birth Control Coverage – Again
Oct 2, 2019
How Laws Targeting Clinics Could End Abortion Access
Nov 19, 2018
Anti-Choice Politicians Are Taking Direct Aim at Roe v. Wade
Jun 4, 2018
Young Immigrant Women Have the Right to Access Abortion. Monday’s Supreme Court Decision Doesn’t Change That.