Category: title ix
Valuing Abortion Over Athletes? Questions for USA Gymnastics
Caroline Wharton | August 22, 2022
Sports and abortion don’t typically make the same headlines, but the recent news of USA Gymnastics choosing competition venues based on a state’s abortion laws has left the pro-life movement with many questions. USA Gymnastics President Li Li Leung told reporters that Roe’s reversal, “took away from the organization’s value system” but what values is she talking about exactly? Students
The Tragic Irony of Redefining Title IX: Fewer Protections for Women
Caroline Wharton | May 24, 2022
In 1972, former Congresswoman Patsy Mink (D-HI) and Sen. Birch Bayh (D-IN) led the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act. For 50 years this bill has afforded equal opportunities in education and sports to women. It states that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied
Title IX Rights Are Once Again Misunderstood As Kiel Middle School Charges Boys for ‘Misgendering’
Caroline Wharton | May 19, 2022
The lines have once again been blurred and crossed with Title IX rights as a new, chilling case emerges in Wisconsin in which three middle school boys have been charged with sexual harassment complaints over not using a classmate’s preferred pronouns. The boys are currently working with free speech legal advocates to make the case that this was not a
Sad Examples of How a Pro-Abortion Mindset Poisons Workplaces
Brenna Lewis | October 20, 2021
In every case, abortion pits a mother against her child, with abortion proponents insinuating that the child is an obstacle to some other goal. This falsehood is one of the primary ways in which abortion betrays women… by telling them that they can’t accomplish their goals without abortion. An abortion mindset poisons the workplace. Just this week, we saw
Female Athletes Don’t NEED Abortion, says Students for Life of America, But They Need to Know their Rights and Resources
Kristi Hamrick | September 21, 2021
SFLA’s Standing With You Initiative Directly Confronts the Issue of Female Athlete Mistreatment by Those Pushing Abortion to Keep Players Right Where They Are “What a shame that Megan Rapinoe and more than 500 female athletes don’t seem to know about their legal rights and the resources available to women experiencing pregnancy while competing,” said SFLA’s Kristan Hawkins. “Our Pregnant
How YOU Can Help Pregnant Students Using Title IX
Brenna Lewis | February 7, 2020
When you think about Title IX, what is the first thing that comes to your head? Usually it’s sexual assault or women’s equality in sports, but there’s another aspect of Title IX that directly affects students and isn’t really talked about. It’s pregnancy discrimination. At Students for Life of America, we have the Pregnant on Campus Initiative which exists so