My short documentary Someone You Know

3 Women. 3 Decisions. 1 Hostile landscape. Three women share their experiences navigating numerous barriers in a hostile landscape to get a later abortion.

Today in America, approximately 1 in 4 people will have an abortion before the age of 45. Trans and non-binary people also have abortions, through their experiences are rarely included in research or statistics. There are no abortion services in at least 89% of U.S. counties, 
and the number of facilities offering later abortions is even more limited. Only a handful of states offer abortion services after the first trimester, and now with Roe v Wade overturned, the barriers to getting an abortion will only get worse. Later abortion patients often become the target of political misinformation and attacks and bear the bulk of harassment. In 'Someone You Know', we meet 3 women - Mindy Swank, Valerie Peterson and Sharon Lagos. Making the decision to use their real names and faces in the interviews, utilizing animation to illustrate their stories, each of the women share their complex stories of having to overcome numerous barriers, in a hostile landscape, to get an abortion later in pregnancy, at a time in America when reproductive freedom is being rolled back at an alarming pace.