ACLU’s Anonymous Mother in Tennessee


Client: ACLU
Edtorial: Reproductive Freedom
Role: Co-Director, Art Director
Date: 2020
For many Americans, receiving abortion care during the pandemic has been nearly impossible — and states are trying to use the ongoing crisis to restrict access even further. One mother told us her story.

Following an October order from the Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland is considering new evidence in our lawsuit challenging a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy requiring patients who need a medication used for early abortion care to travel in person to a clinical setting for the sole purpose of picking up a pill and signing a form.

That policy has been blocked under a court order we won in July — but Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has continued to fight us every step of the way. Their latest argument: COVID-19 is no longer a serious risk, so the federal government should be free to force us to risk exposure as a condition of obtaining essential reproductive health care.

The ACLU video production team approached me to co-direct an animated film that highlighted the story of woman’s struggle for reproductive rights during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.