1. Harriet Fleischl Pilpel was an American attorney and women's rights activist.
25 Facts About Harriet Pilpel
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Harriet Pilpel wrote and lectured extensively regarding the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and reproductive freedom.
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Harriet Pilpel was involved in the birth control movement and the pro-choice movement.
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Harriet Pilpel helped to establish the legal rights of minors to abortion and contraception.
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Harriet Pilpel Fleischl was born on December 2,1911, to Julius and Ethel Fleischl in the Bronx.
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Harriet Pilpel received her JD in 1936 from Columbia Law School, where she graduated second in her class.
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Harriet Pilpel was a protege of Morris Ernst, who co-founded the ACLU.
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Harriet Pilpel supported the struggles to overturn birth control laws at the state level, working alongside movement activist Margaret Sanger.
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Harriet Pilpel was versed in matrimonial law and co-authored the 1952 book entitled Your Marriage and the Law with Theodora Zavin.
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Harriet Pilpel represented publishers and writers in cases involving copyright law.
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Harriet Pilpel's clients included Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Billy Graham, Edna Ferber, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Jerome Kern, and Erich Maria Remarque.
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Harriet Pilpel wrote Planned Parenthood's amicus curiae brief for that case as well as that for 1965's Griswold v Connecticut.
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Harriet Pilpel was influenced by ideas that the right to privacy upheld in Griswold could be extended to a woman's right to abortion.
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Harriet Pilpel put abortion on the agenda of the ACLU Biennial Conference in 1964, though the board did not take up the issue until 1967.
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Alongside Aryeh Neier, Harriet Pilpel helped organize the campaign against New York's anti-abortion law.
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Harriet Pilpel authored Planned Parenthood's amicus brief for Roe v Wade and strategized with attorneys Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, organizing moot court practices prior to arguments in the case.
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Harriet Pilpel helped to establish minors' rights to abortion and contraception.
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Harriet Pilpel presented a paper on the legal rights of minors to the International Council of Women in 1973.
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Harriet Pilpel argued in 1977's Carey v Population Services International on behalf of a minor's right to acquire contraceptives without parental consent.
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Harriet Pilpel was chair of the Law Panel International of Planned Parenthood Federation from 1970 to 1978.
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Harriet Pilpel served on the boards of the Guttmacher Institute, the ACLU, and NARAL.
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Harriet Pilpel was co-chair of the National Coalition Against Censorship.
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Harriet Pilpel remarried, to New York Medical College administrator Irvin B Schwartz on March 13,1989.
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Harriet Pilpel died of a heart attack on April 23,1991, in Manhattan.
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Pilpel was honored with a fellowship in NYU Law's Hays Program, the Harriet Pilpel-Planned Parenthood Fellowship.