Molly Duane

Molly Duane is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where, for the last 10 years, she has been litigating reproductive rights cases under the federal and various state constitutions. She has worked on cases across the country including in North Dakota, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Florida, but is best known for her work in Texas. In Texas, she has challenged multiple burdensome abortion regulations, including S.B. 8, the law that effectively banned abortion in Texas a year before Roe was overturned. She most recently represented Texas women denied abortions during severe obstetrical complications due to Texas’s abortion bans, including Amanda Zurawski and Kate Cox. Duane was recently the subject of an award-winning documentary about these cases called Zurawski v Texas. Duane is a graduate of Princeton University, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Cardozo Law Review. She also clerked for the Honorable Denny Chin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.