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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

Catholic Hospitals' Treatment of Pregnancy Complications: Practices That Endanger Women's Lives Should Not be Below the Radar

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: January 27, 2011 at 03:33 pm

If you have any social life whatsoever, eventually you will find yourself talking about what you do for a living.  My day job is making sure that women’s access to reproductive health care isn’t compromised by the religious beliefs of their hospitals and health care providers. If you don’t think this is great cocktail party fodder, you have different friends than I do.

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Denied Treatment for Pregnancy Complications: Could This Happen To You?

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: January 24, 2011 at 03:06 pm

Can you imagine learning that complications from your pregnancy put your health at risk and yet your hospital refuses to act?

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Back Alley Abortions: The Future is Now

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: January 22, 2011 at 12:12 pm

We often envision a world of “back alley” abortions should Roe v. Wade ever be overturned, but the case in Philadelphia against Kermit Gosnell makes it clear: for women without resources, information and access to safe, reputable providers, the future is now.

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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: October 27, 2010 at 11:44 am

Last week I spoke on a panel at UDC’s Law School on Domestic Violence and Reproductive Justice. Much of what I spoke about can be found on this factsheet, but I learned so much from my co-presenters.

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Mothers Behind Bars: Who Cares?

Posted by Jill C. Morrison, Senior Counsel | Posted on: October 22, 2010 at 11:53 am

I’ve been doing interviews with reporters about our new Mother’s Behind Bars Report, and they always ask the same thing after hearing about the barbaric treatment suffered by some women and states' failure to take even the most basic measures to protect the health and well being of prisoners who are pregnant or giving birth: "Why

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