In summary, our PSA is about reproductive health, what is being researched, how women are affected and how it is treated in politics. The cause of these issues surround the political views, religious views and how clinics and research are funded. Under healthcare, some things are treated but many issues that affect women more are not covered by insurance or Medicare. Politicians and people are pushing for restrictions on abortions and this affects the number of clinics in a state. Those clinics are very important to the surrounding area because they offer screenings for cervical and breast cancer. They help expecting mothers and offer contraceptives to those who want them. The defunding of those clinics cause a lot more damage to a community because of a person's view of what a woman can do with her body.

I helped with creating the interview questions and arranging the interview with Dr. Driscoll. I also helped with the recording and I edited the video and audio together. I think it came out well, except I would have picked a quieter place to record. This is an important issue because it affects me and the access I have to be healthy. I believe that women should have options planned parenthood offers. The most important part of this project was listening to someone in a professional field talk about the concerns about how the issue is being treated. How different states have different laws that make it extremely hard or impossible for them to make their own choices about their body.

Our PSA on reproductive health consists of general facts about the public health topic on several different issues pertaining to it. These issues revolve around the lack of coverage women ge for reproductive health under healthcare, the outside factors that are trying to strip away the few rights women have to reproductive treatment, the lack of awareness and teaching, and what clinics are doing to help provide women when it comes to reproductive health. We chose this topic as a group because we are all women and it is something that affects us right now under an administration with policies and politics that are attacking our reproductive healthcare rights. We live in a time where we have to fight harder to protect those rights which is why we chose this topic. It personally relates to us and we wanted to spread awareness.

I helped with the project by doing preliminary research and creating questions for the interview as well as conducting the interview myself. When I reflect back on what I did well, I would say that I did well helping to come up with good questions that would prompt concise and insightful information. I could have begun some things earlier in the process if I am being completely honest. The most meaningful part of the experience of creating the PSA was learning more about a topic that affects me so personally especially someone of my ethnicity and socio-economic standing. Due to the factors that inhibit reproductive healthcare such as politics and religious overbearings targeting reproductive health clinics, biased funding, and false research, reproductive health is a huge topic because it affects everyone and it barely being covered by our healthcare plan.

The reason why I wanted to research reproductive health and create a PSA about it is because I feel that the topic is extremely overlooked by society. Reproductive health goes much deeper than just sex and pregnancies, it’s also about educating the adolescents. Our interviews played such a huge role in proving our point of teens not really understanding what reproductive health is, they just had a slight idea. And this is part of the issue that my group members and I want to bring to the light. If we want our teens and young adults to stay healthy, we have to teach them how to. The first way i helped contribute to my group was firstly by picking the topic. For about half of the first project day, we couldn’t decide on what to do. So we wanted to be different yet still be interesting and innovative. Other than helping creative the interview questions and the script, i think that I was the creative person providing many different ideas on how to present our PSA. Lastly, I would say that I was the motivation for my group members. I was the one who initiated our project work time during class and outside of class.

Something that we did well on was gaining knowledge on our topic and fully understanding the problems with reproductive health. Majority of our project work time all we did was research, research, and more research. This is because this topic is so broad so there are many things that fall into this category. So honestly we were just trying to take it all in. This happens to be a good thing and a bad thing because while we spent so many days researching, it took away from the days of us getting started on our scripts and interviews. So this is one thing I would do differently next time. The most meaningful part of this project for me would be not only educating myself on this topic but others. When I read about all the negative statistics staggered against African Americans, it truly upset me. However even though it upset me, it also gave me motivation to want to spread the word to my peers.

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