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We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.

We should not continue to play politics with women's health.

As women in general, I don't think we take the time to find ways to take care of ourselves.

And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

We have to understand that we should, at all times, have the right and the power to make decisions about our bodies. And that is an idea that must be taught at a young age. You can't wait until a person is 18 years old and say, 'Now you have the right'. You have to start that from the gate.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.