An unborn child is not simply some obstacle that college officials must help remove from the lives of female athletes, writes ZacharyFaria. Children are not more disposable just because their mothers are athletes.
The Washington Post wrote just such a pressure piece, warning that the NCAA’s silence on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has thrust college sports into confusion. Of course, it has not.
One women’s coach, Georgia Tech basketball coach Nell Fortner, has decided to lecture her players about the “fundamental right that’s been taken away from us.” She had to do this because, when she asked several of her players what they thought about the Supreme Court decision, they knew nothing about it. An anonymous Athletic Department official added that if female athletes aren’t thinking about abortion, “they should be.
And then there is Long Island gymnastics coach Randy Lane, who the Washington Post tells us was one of the few Division I coaches to condemn the Supreme Court’s decision. Overturning Roe “horrified” Lane, who “cried several times” thinking about the decision.
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