In a move as symbolic as it is demonstrative of the issue's severity, more than 500 women athletes are going straight to the Supreme Court to prevent an anti-abortion dystopia. As part of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, the sportswomen joined an amicus brief denouncing anti-abortion laws and meticulously detailing how they can upend the very nature of gender equality.
The staggering number of woman athletes are using their collective influence to make the Supreme Court aware of the devastating effects anti-abortion legislation can have on the totality of women's sports. The WNBA's highest scoring player ever Diana Taurasi, Olympic gold medalist Megan Rapinoe, and vice president of the Women's National Basketball Players Association Layshia Clarendon are a handful of the more than 500 illustrious athletes who joined the amicus brief. They didn't mince words to convey the life-or-death severity of the Supreme Court upholding abortion rights.
