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Lorie Chaiten has been the director of the Reproductive Rights Project for the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois since June of 2001, but has been involved in reproductive rights litigation throughout her 23 year legal career.

Ms. Chaiten has been involved in numerous court challenges to laws that impede women's access to abortion and other reproductive health care, including the challenge to the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act (Zbaraz v. Madigan) and the challenge to the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (National Abortion Federation v. Gonzales).  Other court challenges to restrictive abortion statutes which Ms. Chaiten has pursued include the challenge to Illinois's restrictive abortion facilities licensing scheme (Ragsdale v. Turnock) and to the so-called "partial-birth abortion" ban (Hope Clinic v. Ryan).

Ms. Chaiten also has played a leading role in numerous public advocacy projects, including the Illinois Campaign for Reproductive Justice and the New Abortion Provider Initiative's effort to expand access to medical abortions in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa.

Ms. Chaiten is a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health and is a founding board member of the Midwest Access Project.  Prior to joining the ACLU, Ms. Chaiten was a partner at the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.