"For millions of American women, reading the news this morning was like stepping into a time machine and going back 50 years, seeing the headlines and the photos of this all-male panel in the House talking about a woman's right to access birth control, and no women on the panel. It turns out the chairman of the House oversight committee decided he was not going to allow a young woman who had been asked by the minority to testify and tell her story--actually of a friend who had lost an ovary because of her lack of contraception coverage. So this 19-year-old woman was left to watch, like the rest of us, as all five men addressed the committee about how they supported efforts to restrict access to care. I am sure by now many of my colleagues here have seen this picture of this all-male panel, the picture that says a thousand words. It is one that most women thought was left behind when pictures only came in black and white."
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Sandra Fluke
Sandra Kay Fluke (born April 17, 1981) is an American lawyer and activist. She is a graduate of (2003), and ' graduate of the (2012). She spoke before Democratic members of the on why she believed free is generally essential. Fluke was a Public Interest Law Scholar at the .
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