OLYMPIC ATHLETES GETTING PREGNANT AND ABORTING TO BOOST PERFORMANCE

Report Magazine via EWTN ^ | 2-4-2002 | Celeste McGovern

[Notwithstanding]

SALT LAKE CITY, February 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) - In the Feb.4 issue of Report magazine, "Brave New World", columnist Celeste McGovern writes of a gruesome method of blood doping used by some female athletes to boost athletic performance. Since enhancing drugs and even regular blood doping can be identified by regulators, the pregnancy-abortion scheme, while officially banned, is virtually impossible to stop.

Mona Passignano, director of research at the Texas pro-life group Life Dynamics is quoted by Report quoting from a Finnish sports medicine expert: "Now that drug testing is routine, pregnancy is becoming the favourite way of getting an edge on competition." One Russian athlete told a reporter that as long ago as the '70s, gymnasts as young as 14 were ordered to sleep with their coaches to get pregnant--and then abort. The procedure is so well known it has made it to the textbooks. LifeSite found the method described in an online textbook in physiology by Dr. Poul-Erik Paulev of the Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen.

Professor Paulev writes that pregnancy seems to increase muscle strength in female athletes. "Female top athletes - just following the time when they gave birth to their first child - have set several world records. Of course, this is acceptable as a natural and unintended event. However, in some countries female athletes have become pregnant for 2-3 months, in order to improve their performance just after the abortion."

[jrherreid]

They must be quite pneumatic.

[VA Advogado]

I find this hard to believe. I would imagine the side effects of abortion and the sickness that comes with the early stages of pregnancy more than out weigh any training benefits. This sounds like something out of a sick edition of the Onion.

[Carry_Okie]

My God, how wretched can we get? What a horror.

[Dacus943]

What the Fudge has happened to Planet Earth? I hope this proves to be a HOAX!

[VA Advogado]

How does this jive with the condoms they're handing out at the Olympics?

[Notwithstanding]

"Report" - Canada's Independent Newsmagazine is online at

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[RCW2001]

Wonder how much more it's going to take before God 'throws in the towel' and starts all over again?

[truthandlife]

I know a lot about the abortion scene and have followed it extensively BUT THIS IS THE MOST SICKENING THING I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!! GOD HELP US!!

I bet they are so proud of the "sacrifices" they have had to make to become a world class athlete.

[jlogajan]

were ordered to sleep with their coaches

Those coaches are clever b*st*rds. :-)

This story sounds like urban myth, by the way.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Maybe the North Koreans...they are known to eat their young. But the Finns ?

[Maedhros]

Babies for dinner?

That was Jonathan Swift's answer to Ireland's overpopulation and poverty problems in A Modest Proposal.

[codebreaker]

That is beyond sick, I wouldn't put anything past the commies.

The East Germans, Chinese and USSR nearly killed their athletes with mandatory doping and steriods. (and some died years later)

[Stone Mountain]

I agree. What kind of training benefits are these women supposed to be getting? The article is very vague. Has anyone ever heard of Report Magazine before?

[Notwithstanding]

go to the link listed at post 9 - it appears legit

[wardaddy]

I'm with you...this seems a bit much. Whenever my wife is preggers she sure isn't atheletically enhanced...not to say she isn't lovely.....she just isn't out jumping fences.

[IM2Phat4U]

May God have mercy on us all.

[Maedhros]

Maybe they are the Canuck version of DEBKA.