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Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel

Jill C. Morrison is Senior Counsel in Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women’s Law Center. Since joining the Center in 1998 as a Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow, her focus has been on religious restrictions on reproductive health services. Ms. Morrison is a graduate of Rutgers University and Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and president of the Black Law Students' Association. She served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Sterling Johnson Jr., Eastern District, New York. Ms. Morrison also practiced in Philadelphia as a Bar Foundation Fellow with the Women’s Law Project, and as an associate with Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll. Ms. Morrison currently serves on the board of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and teaches Reproductive Justice at the University of the District of Columbia Law School.

My Take

Another Court Rules: Shackling Pregnant Women During Labor, Delivery and Recovery is Violation of Their Civil Rights

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: May 02, 2011 at 04:02 pm

A traffic stop turned into a nightmare for Juana Villegas, then 9 months pregnant. She was arrested on July 3, 2008 for driving without a valid license, and the Davidson County Sheriff's Office discovered that she was in the country illegally.

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Community Wins Fight for Reproductive Health Services

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: March 29, 2011 at 05:12 pm

Cochise Citizens for Patients' Rights (CCPR), a group of retirees, community activists and doctors in Southern Arizona, formed when the local hospital, Sierra Vista Regional Health Center ("the Hospital"), announced plans to affiliate with the Carondelet Health, a Catholic system.

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Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: A Movie That Shows Why You Should Call on the Senate to Ratify CEDAW

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: March 18, 2011 at 12:59 pm

I had the pleasure to attend a prescreening of Desert Flower, a film about the life of Waris Dirie, the international supermodel from Somalia. Spoiler alert. This is NOT a film about modeling. This is a film about human rights.

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Racism is Shameful; Sex Isn’t

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: February 09, 2011 at 04:56 pm

There was an interesting item in the New York Times last week that didn’t get much coverage. As compared to white women, Hispanic women are fifteen times more likely to receive a test for chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted infection.

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