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born 1981 United States

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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United States House of Representatives. (March 1, 2012).

I think that a lot of women unfortunately have heard those types of words and historically they've always been used to try to silence women, especially women who are speaking out about their reproductive health and reproductive needs.

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

These attempts to silence women and the men who support them have clearly failed. I know this because I have received so many messages of support from across the country -- women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.

A significant gender pay gap still persists. That's why we cannot be passive as we acknowledge Equal Pay Day, which marks the day when a woman's earnings catch up to what her male peers earned in the previous year. To millennials, it's startling to see that women still earn just 77 cents to the dollar of what men earn.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sandra Fluke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.