In an extraordinary brief filed on Jan. 4, more than 100 women lawyers have told the U.S. Supreme Court about their own abortions and why their reproductive freedom was crucial to their personal and professional lives.
The signers include former judges, law professors, law firm partners, public interest lawyers and law clerks, though none who clerked for the high court itself. “The constitutional right to abortion access has had a profoundly important impact on the legal profession,” says Alexia Korberg, an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison who is one of the authors of the brief. “We had a huge outpouring of interest from lawyers who wanted to join this brief.”
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