Accessing essential health care shouldn’t require a good lawyer. But too often, it does—especially when you’re pregnant.

When dangerous laws such as abortion bans get in between patients and medical providers, it can cause lasting harm to individuals and their families.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, hundreds of people have already come forward to share their traumatic experiences. One after the other, they all say the same thing: They’re telling their stories so no one else has to risk losing their health, their fertility, their freedom, or their lives. They want accountability. They want change.  

Enter Amplify Legal, the new litigation arm of Abortion in America.

This nonprofit nonpartisan legal advocacy practice will: 

  • Help people secure access to care before, during, and after pregnancy. 

  • Help those who have already been harmed seek justice.

  • Wield the power of law—and lived experiences—to bring about lasting change. 

If you are in a medical situation related to pregnancy or abortion care and need to speak to a lawyer, please call or text us at 646-494-7779

If you are seeking legal advice about your rights following reproductive harm or discrimination, please email Amplify Legal at intake@amplifylegal.org

If you are interested in learning more about sharing your experience with support from Abortion in America, please email info@abortioninamerica.org  

Who We Are

Molly Duane

Litigation Director

Molly is a lawyer, public health professional, and an expert on legal rights during pregnancy. On the day Roe v. Wade fell in the summer of 2022, Molly helped a Texan access emergency abortion care out of state, but that was only the beginning. In the following months and years, she began connecting with people across the country and has emerged as a go-to lawyer for individuals and families injured by abortion bans. Molly believes that uplifting powerful, personal experiences of reproductive harm will reduce the stigma surrounding abortion and pregnancy loss and help change hearts and minds on the long road to legal reform. 

Prior to joining Amplify Legal and Abortion in America, Molly spent a decade litigating constitutional cases under federal and state law at the Center for Reproductive Rights. While at the Center, she was the lead attorney representing twenty Texans denied emergency abortions—and two physicians—in a challenge to Texas’s abortion ban. The case, Zurawski v. Texas, marked the first time that patients denied abortions testified in court in opposition to an abortion ban in five decades. Kate Cox, another Texan, tracked Molly down while in the midst of her own doomed and painful pregnancy loss, while still being denied care in her own state. Molly filed Cox v. Texas six days later. Her work in those two cases was featured in  an independent award-winning documentary named for the Zurawski case. In recognition of her extensive public-facing legal and media work before the age of 40,  Molly was named to the TIME 100 Next list last year.

Now, Molly is developing a legal practice built for and around reproductive storytellers. Molly holds degrees from Princeton University, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two young children.

Sandy Keenan

Senior Advisor

Although she works mostly behind the scenes, Sandy’s influence is everywhere. As an advocate, a communications strategist, and a storytelling advisor, Sandy supports clients in litigation, storytellers, and thought leaders in the reproductive rights and justice movement. 

Before joining Amplify Legal and Abortion in America, she spent nearly seven years with the Center for Reproductive Rights. At the Center, Sandy helped manage the communications department through two U.S. Supreme Court case campaigns, including the case that overturned Roe v. Wade. Since Roe was overturned, Sandy’s work at the Center focused exclusively on supporting patients and doctors who chose to become plaintiffs in cases challenging their state’s extreme abortion bans—in Texas, in Idaho, and in Tennessee. She has supported abortion storytellers who’ve spoken at the White House, testified before Congress, state medical boards, and state legislatures, as well as those at the center of federal EMTALA complaints or amicus briefs filed in places like Arizona, Florida, and Georgia.

She likes to tell people that her previous life—as a journalist—trained her well for the work she does now. In her first career, Sandy led newsrooms and news teams to award winning work. She was the environment editor of The New York Times, ran news, investigative and data-based teams at Consumer Reports and Newsday, and has deep experience as a sports writer and editor. While the deputy sports editor of the Times, she oversaw the coverage of the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics, and also worked as a sports reporter and writer for the Miami Herald, Sports Illustrated, and Newsday. 

Sandy lives in New York with her husband and loves spending time with their large extended family that now includes three grandsons, and one granddog.

Support our work 

At Amplify Legal, we are just getting started. Please support our work by donating to Abortion in America.

If you are a lawyer interested in working with us on a pro bono basis, please reach out to us intake@amplifylegal.org

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