Part of Rep. Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) questioning during the contraception hearing with Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke placed contraception coverage in a larger context of women’s access to reproductive care. We’re accustomed to the fact that women live longer today, Norton said. I wonder if people realize that’s a 20th century phenomenon. If you visit the graveyards from the past, women died earlier, many from child birth and it’s complications.
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