Bonnie Scott Jones

Since joining the Center for Reproductive Rights in 1996, Bonnie has litigated a wide range of cases to protect access to reproductive health services. She has developed considerable expertise in fighting TRAP laws, and has led the Center’s cases against such laws in South Carolina,Arizona,Missouri, and Kansas. Bonnie has developed a number of innovative legal theories in her cases, including arguing that ultrasound viewing laws discriminate against women, and that state inspection schemes violate the Fourth Amendment and patients’ rights to informational privacy. Bonnie has played a leading role in the Center’s long-standing efforts to make emergency contraception (EC) widely available to women , and she filed the Center’s Citizen’s Petition to the FDA on behalf of women’s health advocates seeking to make EC available over-the-counter. Since joining the Center, Bonnie has published widely on legal issues affecting access to reproductive health services; her writing has appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, Obstetrics & Gynecology, SCOTUS Blog, and American Constitution Society Issue Briefs.

Prior to joining the Center, Bonnie was a law clerk, first for the Massachusetts Superior Court and then for the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Sarah Lawrence College. She spent much of her childhood in Australia, and has lived in both Mexico and Guatemala (where she worked with the International Legal Program on its fact-finding report on contraception access for Guatemalan women).