Quote 23 Feb 173 notes
I will confirm that I was energized, yes. As you can see from the reaction behind me, many women in this country are energized about this issue … I’m an American woman who uses contraception, so let’s start right there. That makes me qualified to talk to my elected officials about my health care needs.
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The only woman who was invited and then prevented from testifying at a GOP hearing on birth control. 

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), dismissed Sandra Fluke (a third year law student) as an “energized” “college student” who was not “appropriate and qualified” to testify before his committee.

(via think-progress)

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