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
Sep 16, 2009
Mississippi Officials Need a Civics Lesson on Constitution Day
Sep 11, 2009
Mississippi's "No-No Square" Around the First Amendment
Jul 2, 2009
The Games Sheriff Arpaio Continues to Play With Women's Health
Jan 16, 2009
°¿±¹±ð°ù²õ¾±²µ³ó³Ù:Ìý¸é±ð²¹±ô±ô²â?!?Ìý³§±ð°ù¾±´Ç³Ü²õ±ô²â?!?
Jan 12, 2009
Show Some Compassion
Jan 5, 2009
A New Year's Resolution for a New Sex Ed Policy
Nov 25, 2008
We Sure Could Use that $1.5 Billon...
Nov 18, 2008
Alone, Vulnerable, and Without Access to Vital Reproductive Health Care
Oct 3, 2008
When Will We Learn? The Many Failings of Abstinence-Only Programming
Jun 30, 2008
The 8th Circuit Court Okays South Dakota’s Political Interference in Women’s Personal Medical Decision-Making