Name: Sonia Stomberg-Firestein

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Abortion Rights and Access

Date of Fieldwork: February 1, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Vivian Silva

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We met with Vivian Silva to talk about the pro-life point of view of abortions. She is important to our topic because it is very controversial. We had only interviewed pro-choice people before and we wanted to hear someone else’s perspective. We learned some of the reasons for the pro-life perspective.

Vivian thinks that if you become pregnant and don’t want the baby you should deal with the consequences because they were you actions. When she said this we asked her, “What if it is rape?” She said that she thought that in some cases when the mother is a minor then abortion is okay but otherwise you can give the baby up for adoption. She said the same for incest cases.