Six Days at the Pacific Northwest’s Regional Abortion Fund

“I always tell them, ‘You don’t have to justify what you’re doing, to me.'"by Megan Burbank ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
On Monday morning, the Northwest Abortion Access Fund’s weekly budget is replenished, and a new hotline shift begins.
This week, Jeanie Schauerman is one of two volunteers staffing the hotline, responding to callers throughout the Pacific Northwest who need help paying for their abortion procedures. Schauerman’s been doing this work for 12 years,