WASHINGTON – More than 100 female lawyers joined in a brief to tell the U.S. Supreme Court about their own abortions and why their reproductive freedom was pivotal to their personal and professional lives.

The extraordinary brief, filed Monday, was signed by former judges, law professors, law firm partners, public interest lawyers and law clerks, though none who clerked for the high court itself.

“The constitutional right to abortion access has had a profoundly important impact on the legal profession” said Alexia Korberg, a New York associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and one of the authors of the brief. “We had a huge outpouring of interest from lawyers who wanted to join this brief.”