um, yeah. i never want to, you know, speak as an expert, which i m not, but i can speak for myself. and i know that you can be pregnant and not know it. if i had an unplanned pregnancy and a child when i was in high school, i know that my athletic career would have been completely derailed. these athletic careers, like, also lead to our educational opportunities and abilities to make money. i mean, i want to know what do you hope is going to come from this amicus brief? yeah. i signed on with all of these strong female athletes because they re using their platforms. this is empowering other people
500 athletes filed an amicus brief calling on the supreme court to protect reproductive rights arguing roe v. wade plays a vital role in athletics as their brief states, quote, 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, such a restriction would never be imposed on a male athlete, though he would be equally responsible for a pregnancy. olympic gold medalist lee keeper joins me now. lee, let s talk about these new restrictive abortion laws coming out of mississippi, texas, florida, a bunch of other states. how will these laws specifically impact athletes? definitely. so, you know, i believe a woman should ve control over their bodies and be able to make these decisions based on their life circumstances. my fellow athletes and i, we put our bodies through extremely demanding conditions in order to become masters of our craft. we know, like, if we
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, such a restriction would never be imposed on a male athlete, though he would be equally responsible for a pregnancy. olympic gold medalist lee keeper joins me now. lee, let s talk about these new restrictive abortion laws coming out of mississippi, texas, florida, a bunch of other states. how will these laws specifically impact athletes? definitely. so, you know, i believe a woman should ve control over their bodies and be able to make these decisions based on their life circumstances. my fellow athletes and i, we put our bodies through extremely demanding conditions in order to become masters of our craft.
so we come back to the safety, creating safe environments for women and just going back to women s health. the am cuss brief specifically in the case against mississippi s 15-week abortion ban, what scares you most about that case? um, yeah. i never want to, you know, speak as an expert, which i m not, but i can speak for myself. and i know that you can be pregnant and not know it. if i had an unplanned pregnancy and a child when i was in high school, i know that my athletic career would have been completely derailed. these athletic careers, like, also lead to our educational opportunities and abilities to make money. i mean, i want to know what
countries about arriving in tokyo? new data shows that over 65s are hospitalised around 5,000 times well, we have already had some athletes arrive, we had an a year as a result of self harm or self poisoning in england. australian softball team arrived here this week to begin their social isolation, bereavement quarantine and they will start and a reluctance to visit doctors are said to be factors, playing matches here. the athletes on the whole have been expressing and all have been made confidence. i think the olympics is worse by the pandemic. professor nav kapur helped write a big thing for most athletes. it is the nice guidelines on self harm, and is warning that if older one of the pinnacles of their individuals don t get support, it can leave them at a much greater athletic careers, so a lot of them will not want to see the olympics risk of taking their own lives. cancelled. we heard from some prominent athletes saying, worrying in one of the studies we did, older adults who hur