Julie F. Kay

Julie F. Kay is well-known as a litigator and a voice for using law to promote abortion rights and gender equity in the US and internationally. Kay is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Abortion Coalition (ACT) for Telemedicine, a new non-profit that supports licensed providers to make legal, affordable telemedicine abortion available to people anywhere in the US. Kay is the co-author with Kathryn Kolbert of Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom (Hachette 2021, revised edition 2024). As the lead attorney who
designed and litigated the landmark abortion rights case ABC v. Ireland before the European Court of Human Rights, Kay helped lay the groundwork for legalization of abortion in Ireland. An experienced and passionate advocate for equality, she also develops innovative legal and policy reforms to protect the parenting rights of people leaving ultra-religious communities. Kay lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.