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. - Sandra Fluke

I don’t think that a statement like this, issued saying that his ‘choice of words was not the best,’ changes anything.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

One student told us that she knew birth control wasn’t covered, and she assumed that’s how Georgetown’s insurance handled all of women’s sexual healthcare, so when she was raped, she didn’t go to the doctor even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections because she thought insurance wasn’t going to cover something like that, something that was related to a woman’s reproductive health.