"Women see you for who you are. I have received countless emails from women across the country who are outraged and want to do something about you. You may have thought that women would be silenced by your attacks, but just the opposite is true. Women are rallying because we see that your attack on Ms. Fluke is an attack on all of us and on our right to speak out publicly and to stand up for contraception and our reproductive rights."
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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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