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Sandra Kay Fluke (born April 17, 1981) is an American lawyer and women's rights activist. She is a graduate of Cornell University (2003), and cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center (2012).
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What female students might not remember is that the men with whom we stand shoulder-to-shoulder at graduation don't face the same financial challenges.
Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.
Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.
I would do this again, because these issues are that important to me.
By now, many have heard the stories I wanted to share thanks to the congressional leaders and members of the media who have supported me and millions of women in speaking out.
There are, of course, some people who legitimately disagree about the actual contraception policy, and that legitimate policy disagreement is appropriate.
I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives -- not for ideology.
White House Press Secretary. Video of exchange filmed by whitehouse.gov. (March 2, 2012).
We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to choose.
These denials of contraceptive coverage impact real people. In the worst cases, women who need this medication for other medical reasons suffer dire consequences.
U.S. Congressional testimony (2012)
Many young women of my generation believe they live in a post-feminist world, without unfair sex discrimination -- a world in which career paths are designed with fathers and mothers in mind. Unfortunately, that world doesn't exist quite yet.
I don’t think that a statement like this, issued saying that his ‘choice of words was not the best,’ changes anything.
I’m here because I spoke out, and this November, each of us must do the same.
This is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends. A woman’s reproductive healthcare isn’t a necessity, isn’t a priority.
U.S. Congressional testimony (2012)
One woman told us doctors believe she has endometriosis, but it can’t be proven without surgery, so the insurance hasn’t been willing to cover her medication.
U.S. Congressional testimony (2012)
I think his statements that he made on the air about me have been personal enough. so I’d rather not have a personal phone call from him.
Many of the women whose stories I’ve shared are Catholic women, so ours is not a war against the church. It is a struggle for access to the healthcare we need.
U.S. Congressional testimony (2012)
During this campaign, we’ve heard about the two profoundly different futures that could await women. And how one of those futures looks like an offensive, obsolete relic of our past.
A country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom – or one where that freedom doesn’t apply to our bodies and our voices.
Video of President Barack Obama by whitehouse.gov. (March 6, 2012).
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