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What if, two weeks ago, instead of letting five men discuss what insurance coverage of contraception means to them (photo here), House representatives let five women speak? What might they have said?
 
One would tell how embarrassed and powerless she felt when, standing at the pharmacy counter, she first learned that contraception was not covered by her insurance. She had to walk away, unable to afford it.
 
Another would say that she recently gave birth, and her doctor explained that she needed contraception because it would be physically detrimental to become pregnant again too soon. But her insurance coverage doesn’t cover contraception when used to prevent pregnancy, even when it’s medically necessary to do so.

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