Help Us Fight Back Against Efforts to Roll Back Gender Justice

Extremist judges will not stop endangering the lives of pregnant people or people who may become pregnant—overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking medication abortion, threatening the future of IVF, and this week at SCOTUS, emergency abortion care.

Our lawyers are waging strategic fights that make clear what is at stake for people who can become pregnant and seek to bolster our fundamental rights to control our lives, futures, and destinies.

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Katie O’Connor

Director of Federal Abortion Policy

Katie O’Connor is the Director of Federal Abortion Policy at the National Women’s Law Center. Before joining NWLC, she served as Deputy Chief Counsel at Demand Justice, an organization fighting for progressive change in our courts. Katie has also served as Director of Policy Development and Programming at the American Constitution Society, where she drove the organization’s strategy on voting and democracy, equality and liberty. She previously litigated federal and state voting rights cases as staff counsel at Advancement Project and the ACLU Voting Rights Project. She is a Tennessee native, DC resident, and graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University College of Law.