Julie F. Kay

Julie F. Kay

Julie is well-known as a litigator and a voice for using law to promote abortion rights and gender equity in the US and internationally. She is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT), a new nonprofit that supports licensed providers to make legal, affordable telemedicine abortion available anywhere in the US.

Julie is the co-author with Kathryn Kolbert of “Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom.” She was the lead attorney who designed and litigated the landmark abortion rights case, ABC v. Ireland, before the European Court of Human Rights — a case which helped lay the groundwork for legalization of abortion in Ireland. She also develops innovative legal and policy reforms to protect the parenting rights of people leaving ultra-religious communities.

Julie holds a BA in Women’s Studies and Social Studies from Harvard University, and a JD from Brooklyn Law School.