Name: Aedan Grover-Scher

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Reproductive Rights/Abortion

Date of Fieldwork: February 13, 2023

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

Type of Fieldwork: Tour of Organization

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

Last week we visited a Planned Parenthood. On the outside the building looks very unwelcoming. We started our tour by seeing the part of the Planned Parenthood that provides other services besides abortions. This included vasectomies and screenings for cervical cancer.

After that we went to the second floor where we looked at the process of having an abortion. The first thing that happens is you check in and decide how you are going to pay. You can either use insurance, pay with cash, or use medicaid. After you decided how you were going to pay you were given a pregnancy test then an ultrasound. After they see how far along in your pregnancy you were, they give you options for sedation. You can either have deep sedation or medium sedation. Then the procedure is done. After it is finished you go to the waiting room and recover.

Seeing the planned parenthood gave me a very up close experience of what it is like to get an abortion. This helped me connect with the topic more and gave me more passion for the work I have been doing.