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
Apr 3, 2018
Access to Abortion for Young Immigrants in Government Custody
Mar 1, 2018
Scott Lloyd鈥檚 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鈥檚 Ordeal Illustrates the Trump Administration鈥檚 Threat to All Women鈥檚 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鈥檚 Been a Good Week for Reproductive Rights
May 12, 2017
The Other Shoe Didn鈥檛 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鈥檒l Find Out.
Feb 2, 2017
Should Your Boss鈥檚 Religious Beliefs Dictate Your Health Insurance Coverage? Supreme Court Nominee Judge Gorsuch Thinks So