About the role

  • PPFA’s Lit and Law team conducts constitutional impact litigation in state and federal courts across the country.
  • Lit and Law also provides strategic legal advice on legislation in Congress and state legislatures and on regulatory issues at the national, state, and local levels.
  • Policy Counsel Interns work closely with Lit and Law policy counsel on a wide variety of policy-related responsibilities, including conducting legal research and analysis and drafting memoranda, talking points, and issue-specific backgrounders.
  • Interns will be invited to participate in conversations with affiliates and coalition partners throughout the summer.
  • The Lit and Law State Policy team provides strategic legal advice to affiliate health centers about their proactive and defensive legislative and administrative goals and provides analysis and support on state policy work related to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including but not limited to access to abortion and contraception, sexual and reproductive health education, gender-affirming care for transgender individuals, and Medicaid coverage.
  • We assist affiliates in their efforts to defeat or repeal laws and policies that restrict Planned Parenthood patients’ access to comprehensive reproductive health services and in their efforts to enact laws and policies that expand access to such services.
  • Our team also provides analysis and legal advice on regulatory issues at the state and local levels.

Requirements

  • Rising 2L or rising 3L law students preferred
  • Excellent research and writing skills, enthusiasm for working with [litigation or policy] attorneys, a demonstrated commitment to social justice, and a strong interest in reproductive rights and justice, health law, racial and economic justice, and/or public interest law more generally.

Benefits

  • This internship is unpaid.

Job title

Policy Counsel Intern

Job type

Experience level

Entry level

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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