Hilary Swank has filed a lawsuit against the Board of Trustees of the SAG-AFTRA health plan, demanding that they resume coverage of medical treatment for her recurrent ovarian cysts.
The lawsuit, obtained by TheWrap, argues that the trustees made a sexist decision in denying Swank her coverage under the argument that “there was no medically necessary reason to treat or monitor ovarian cysts other than for ‘infertility treatment.’” The lawsuit even quotes Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”: “As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
“This matter addresses the shockingly antiquated question of whether the sole purpose of a woman, and specifically her ovaries, is to procreate,” says the lawsuit.