‘I only see it getting worse’: Female athletes speak out on Roe v. Wade

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‘I only see it getting worse’: Female athletes speak out on Roe v. Wade
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“It’s been a war on women for some time now,' the Washington Mystics' Natasha Cloud said.

that would ban abortions after 15 weeks, King recalled her experience of becoming pregnant in 1971, just as her sports career was ascending and her marriage was ending. She made the decision to terminate her pregnancy in California, where it was legal, and was fortunate to have the means to pay the $580 fee.

Last winter, Megan Rapinoe, Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner and Sue Bird were among more than 500 current and former athletes who lent their names to an amicus brief filed in , the Supreme Court’s third major abortion case since 2016 and the one that threatens to hasten the end of“Athletic prowess depends on bodily integrity,” the brief argued. “This reality is magnified for women athletes for whom childbearing age coincides with their competitive peak in athletics. If the State compelled women athletes to carry pregnancies to term and give birth, it could derail women’s athletic careers, academic futures, and economic livelihoods at a large scale.

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