Tag Archive | reproductive rights
ESPN The Magazine’s Political Survey
In its most recent issue, ESPN The Magazine conducted an anonymous survey of players across the four big sports about various political issues. At the outset, I don’t think sports and politics should mix, but obviously athletes have lives beyond their jobs, and I don’t fault them for using their fame to advance their beliefs and values. [...]
Chicago Bears Owners Don’t Want Their Employees to Have Comprehensive Healthcare
On Sunday the Chicago Bears owners hosted “The Reclaiming Religious Liberty Leadership Summit” at their practice field in Lake Forest, Ill., specifically criticizing the portion of the Affordable Care Act (known fondly as Obamacare) which requires all healthcare coverage to include coverage of contraception. To be clear: our healthcare system is structured in such a way that [...]
Paternity Leave in Professional Sports
While nearly everyone who chooses to juggle a career and parenting faces difficult challenges, as I mentioned in my post about Griswold v. Connecticut, athletes face a particularly tough balancing act because the window for their career is so much shorter than for other careers and because the best time for childbearing coincides with the height of [...]
What Griswold Means for Female Athletes
Today is the 47th anniversary of the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), which, in striking down a criminal ban on contraceptives, recognized for the first time that the United States Constitution guarantees a right to privacy, and that this right encompasses a right to obtain and use contraceptives. (For all you legal eagles [...]
Tim Tebow Plays in New York Now
Well, as of last week, controversial NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is a New York Jet, and the thought of him gracing the back pages of the Post and Daily News every day makes me none too pleased. Tebow was signed as the Jets’ back-up quarterback; earlier this off-season the Jets signed their starting quarterback, Mark Sanchez, to a three-year [...]
