"While it would be nice to believe we're in the twilight zone, the recent ploys of Republicans against women's health are all frighteningly too real. In reality, this hearing did take place with the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee blocking the testimony of women, women like Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, who later testified during a special hearing convened by Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of a fellow female student at Georgetown University who had been denied contraception coverage because of the university's Catholic affiliation. Her friend experienced complications stemming from ovarian cysts that could have been treated with birth control. Sadly, due to nontreatment, doctors eventually were forced to remove her ovary."
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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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