Name: Aedan Grover-Scher

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

Date of Fieldwork: January 31, 2023

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

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 31st we interviewed New York Times Journalist, Linda Greenhouse. She told us about her time sitting in the court when Roe V Wade was ruled in the 70s. She also talked about how upsetting it was to see it overturned recently. Linda also talked about the multiple books she has written on our topic.

One of the most interesting things Linda talked about was how abortion used to be a much less two sided topic. She talked about how Ronald Reagan used abortion as a political strategy and it made abortion become more two sided. Hearing from someone who was in the court when Roe was ruled was very interesting and made me more passionate about the topic.