So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.