Accessing essential health care shouldn’t require a 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.

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, call or text us at 646-494-7779

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

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

Meet The Team

Molly Duane

Litigation Director

Molly is a lawyer, public health professional, and an expert on legal rights during pregnancy who has emerged as a go-to lawyer for individuals and families harmed by abortion bans.

Before starting Amplify Legal, Molly worked for 10 years as a litigator for the Center for Reproductive Rights, bringing constitutional challenges, including Zurawski v. Texas on behalf of 20 Texas patients and two doctors. She also represented Texan Kate Cox in the midst of her own pregnancy loss and both cases were featured in an award-winning documentary named for the case. Molly was named to the TIME 100 Next list in 2025.

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

Since Roe was overturned in 2022, Sandy’s work has focused almost entirely on supporting patient and doctor plaintiffs, and other public-facing storytellers, in the abortion rights movement, working on plaintiff-led legal cases in Texas, in Idaho, and in Tennessee, first with the the Center for Reproductive Rights and now with Amplify Legal and Abortion in America.

Before working in this movement, she was a career journalist, leading newsrooms and news teams to award winning work. She was the environment editor and the deputy sports 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.

Louisa Thanhauser

Louisa Thanhauser

Director of Client Support and Engagement

Louisa is a social-work trained state policy expert with lots of experience in reproductive rights policy, advocacy, organizing, and storytelling—first with the National Abortion Federation and for the last eight years at the Center for Reproductive Rights on their state team. 

She has worked closely with state-based reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations in Texas, Louisiana, and other states, including in the U.S. Supreme Court case campaigns. 

Louisa is passionate about supporting individuals who decide to participate in legal and legislative advocacy in the aftermath of deeply personal experiences. She has created workshops and processing spaces to support storytellers, and provided hands-on support to Zurawski plaintiffs-turned advocates during the 2025 Texas legislative sessions. 

She holds degrees from Cornell University and the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.

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