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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Women's Health Group to Blanket Congress With Landmark Book

The National Press Club • October 24, 2012

> The reason for placing a copy of the book in every congressional office, said Cindy Pearson, executive director of the National Women’s Health Network, is to enable staff aides to senators and representatives to say to constituents, “My boss’s policy views may differ but at least I’ll be able to make sure he or she has the facts,”  
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> Diane Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women and Families, said, “The important thing to understand is the number of pieces of legislation that affect women’s health in ways large and small.”

  
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