Name: Cece Binn

Social Justice Group: Abortion Rights and Access

Date of Fieldwork: January 26, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Diane Macias, CAPS & Patient Navigation Director at Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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?[:: :

On January 26th our group met with Diane Macias who is the Patient Navigation Director at Planned Parenthood. She is based in Florida so out interview took place over zoom. As a Patient navigator she help patients find a clinic and cover any cost for gas, food, hotel room and anything else they might need to get to the clinic. This is important because do to restrictions some states might have it can be extremely hard to find an abortion and sometime you might even have to travel out of state.

Texas had a bunch of laws that make it hard for Diane to do her job. She also talked about the Mississippi SB 8 law that says you cant get an abortion after 15 weeks and is trying to overturn Roe v Wade. Laws like this is why Diane’s job is so important. It can be extremely hard for a women to find an abortion and gather the resources she need when her state is working against her.