Athletic Abortions

ESPN's Outside the Lines ran a controversial story this morning regarding NCAA policies with respect to female athletes. According to the report, some schools have written policies saying any student-athlete who becomes pregnant will lose her athletic scholarship, and that many athletes have abortions because they don't want to lose their scholarships.

At Clemson, 7 athletes told ESPN they had abortions (and it's suspected that others did not report such instances). There are apparently no firm rules governing how colleges or the NCAA deal with pregnant athletes, but many athletes say it's clear to them that if they want to continue to have a scholarship, they can't miss playing time because of a pregnancy. Syracuse forward Fantasia Goodwin played last season while she was seven months pregnant and hid that fact from the team.

...The part of this story that had me in stitches was the report relating to Clemson. I don't know why, but I couldn't stop laughing. What are these chicks doing?? If you're going to continue sleeping around, either utilize a condom or go on the pill. It's quite simple. I realize that neither of these proposals are 100% guaranteed...but if implemented, I can assure you that 7+ female athletes from one school would not be scheduled to pop out toddlers.

Who else, besides me, is interested in seeing the statistics relating to the Rutgers basketball team??