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Eileen Gu, the American-born and -raised skier competing for China in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, has been outspoken in her support for abortion.
“Nine percent of abortions are teenagers — and so when I think about my friends, my peers, myself as young female athletes and the amount of time that we have to put into our work and into training, and you know whattaking a season off or taking a year off to carry an unwanted pregnancy will do to our careers and to our ambitions is absolutely devastating,” Gu said,according toAspen Public Radio. Gu was speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Nine months ofpregnancy, not to mention caring for an infant, are no doubt career stressors. But Gu seems to spare no compassion for the devastation abortion wreaks on human children.
That being said, childbearing is not necessarily a career-ending event forathletes. Nine mothers are competing for Team USA in this year’s Olympics,according toNBC News.
Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries, both mothers, both over 40, earned medals in the women’s monobob. Humphries took home the bronze, Taylor nabbed the gold.
“All those haters that say once you’re 40 you’re over the hill, or once you’re a mom you can’t be back on top of the podium — that’s not true,” Humphries said,according toKSLTV 5.
Meyers Taylor referred to the win as a career high.
“Oh, it’s at the top,” she said, according to KSLTV 5. “Not only Olympic champion, but to be able to do it with both my kids — it’s just incredible.”
Tabitha Peterson, a 36-year-old curler and mother of a toddler,ledthe U.S. women’s curling team to victory over China on Sunday. That teamincludesher sister, Tara Peterson, also the mother of a young child.
Source: The Vigilant Fox
