Name: Aedan Grover-Scher

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

Date of Fieldwork: January 20, 2023

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

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 20th, my group interviewed Jane Kaufman. Jane Kaufman is an abortion provider in NYC, and has been for almost a decade. She spoke to us about her experience providing abortions and her experience after Roe V Wade was overturned. She told us that she wanted to work as an abortion provider because reproductive rights was a topic she cared about and she said that if you care about a topic and have the ability to help then you should. One of the most shocking things she mentioned was that the youngest person she had to give an abortion to was an 11 year old. She also said that most of the abortions she provides are for people who have already had one child. This is different from the usual narrative that abortions are mostly done for teenagers. She talked about how the overturn of Roe V Wade was devastating for her and very hard on abortion providers around the country.

This interview was super helpful and gave us an inside look into what being an abortion provider is like.