"Her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted the birth control to prevent pregnancy. She’s gay, so clearly was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy. After months of paying over $100 out of pocket, she just couldn’t afford her medication anymore and had to stop taking it. I learned about all of this when I walked out of a test and got a message from her that in the middle of her final exam period she’d been in the emergency room all night in excruciating pain. … Without her taking the birth control, a massive the size of a tennis ball had grown on her . She had to have surgery to remove her entire 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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