Hilary Swank is suing SAG-AFTRA over ‘barbaric’ health plan

Hilary Swank is taking a stand against the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) health plan, demanding that the guild treat “all their members equally” after she was denied treatment for her malignant ovarian cysts because of a sexist and outdated mode of thinking about women’s healthcare.The Boys Don’t Cry star is in fact suing SAG-AFTRA and filed her court papers on August 8^th, saying in those documents that she was diagnosed with malignant ovarian cysts in 2008, but in 2015 the trustees “stopped allowing Swank’s claims for treatment of ovarian cysts,” citing what she calls “antiquated, barbaric” notions about women’s reproductive healthcare and the management of pain.