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If she did not have sex this would not be an issue

When these teenagers make mistakes like this, they always expect the rest of society to pick up the pieces & change the rules because of their failed choices. She should have thought about the consequences before she made the choice. I suggest going down to the local ACORN office and signing up for the Government doal.

Things are different…she’s pregnant. If something happens on the floor and she miscarries, watch the lawsuits come. Maybe the other teams should complain because technically she is two players now.

I agree with the coach reducing her time. If something wasto happen and she miscarried, the lawyers would be lining up outside her home. The coach would be sued and probably fired for not using sound judgment.

And who will pay for the lawsuits when one of these girls has a mis-carriage……
Mommy will be the first one lined up to file a law suit,

Ok. I am just crazy over this. As a mother of 2, I was warned against risky behavior during my pregnancies. At the gym, the excercizes for pregnant women are very low-impact for a reason. For pete’s sake, pregnant women should not even ride a rollercoaster! Is a 30 second rollercoaster ride more or less strenuous than daily practices, training and bi-weekly volleyball games? Had she miscarried, her family would have sued for sure.
I love that the mom is crying descrimination based on sex. She must be confused that ’sex’ means male/female, not how much action she let her minor child get. Boy, that girl sure was busy! Like how she considered her new baby to be ‘just a little more responsibility’? What a self righteous, attention grabbing, shameless whore.

I can’t believe we are even discussing this. She should not play. I wouldn’t have her on my team.(I’m a HS girls soccer coach) She obviously is not too bright.

This is insanity. This girl and her mother are ridiculous. Everything is about them and what’s best for the girl. What about what’s best for the team and the school? She needs to park her butt on the bench and get her exercise some other way. This is all about making sure she gets playing time to better her chances of being successful. Who cares about the effect on others.

The coach did the right thing. If she falls or gets sick she and her idiot mother will be quick to sue to the school and the coach. As a woman, I’m sick of these pampered princesses who expect everyone to bow down to them. If she was so busy and focused on becoming successful she wouldn’t be pregnant. Obviously, her mother failed to monitor her daughter’s sex life. I guess now she’s making up for it and wants the school and the community to pay for her daughter’s failures.

I hope someone involved in this gets some common sense and sides with the school.

Tell me again why we have public education?

Who’s the father of the kid? Where is her father? BS from start to finish.

I would argue that the lady at the end is clueless when she says that “women know what is right for … their baby.”

What is right for the baby is that there is a father in the picture… that the child be brought up in a stable family.

just a thought

Really? Sounds like she should have been given the talk “choose your behavior, choose your consequences” a long time ago. It’s a fact of life that way too many teenagers aren’t taught

Life changes when certain life-choices are made. You are pregnant now, and also single student. This choice you have made brings with it certain consequences. You may feel discriminated against for not having access to certain things you once had access to, but this is what happens with every decision you make. A decision “for” something is also a decision “against” other things.

If you learn this life-lesson, and not blame others through tears and sympathies from friends, you might end up becoming a decent person. If not, you will become bitter, blaming others for the choices YOU made!

The doctor provided medical clearance so why shouldn’t she play on the team? She is not an invalid, nor does she have a contagious disease. I do agree the issue of liability could be a factor.

so she didn’t like the coach informing everyone, but she tells her story on national TV?

making sacrifices is part of being a parent you mite as well get use to it

So much wrong here. Note the weird narrative of the girl and mother – “they discriminated against her because he was pregnant” – Ok, so? Being pregnant isn’t a protected class. And it is a result of her actions. No, it isn’t based on her gender and besides the whole team are girls so the mother is full of it. Why encourage her to be “successful” – wouldn’t that encourage other girls to make bad decisions? Where are the namby-pamby conservatives?

Catch22: Coach puts her in the game, she gets hurt, loses the child, lawsuit…Coach does NOT put her in the game, baby is NOT hurt, but the mother’s feelings are hurt, lawsuit.

Really, I am truly sorry that she didn’t wait, but these are the consequences in life. And I am happy that she is carrying the child, but….

It’s not all about her. Sorry, you crossed that line and now it’s time to grow up. It’s needs to be all about the child that you are carrying.

As far as your playing time, at 5 months pregnant, you may not be the same athlete you were before with speed explosion, vertical jump, etc.

“Nurture pregnant athletes…”? Oh, Mom, please! If she’s on varsity, it’s all about the winning. If you want nurturing, go join the intramural or rec league.

She may be an Honor student, but she is stupid and naive to think it is appropriate or responsible to bring a child into this world at the age of 17. In this day and age there are a million birth control options out there.

Ha! How’s that abstinence crap workin’ out for all you right wing nut jobs now? And in the heart of the secession conservative state taboot! Morons!

WTF?? December 10th, 2009 – 1:52 pm

Ha! How’s that abstinence crap workin’ out for all you right wing nut jobs now?

Your parents still haven’t given you that talk, eh? Abstinence works every time.

I don’t think the coach/school was upfront with her. Possibly they were concerned for the baby/mother because it is a contact sport when diving for the ball. I feel sorry for her that she seemed to feel lower as a person because she was pregnant. She is a beautiful women who seems to have her head together and I wish her the best of luck in her life. I am glad her best friend stuck up for her.

Am I supposed to feel sorry for this girl? I don’t. There are consequences to sex. I feel sorry for the coach, who has a no-win decision to make. And this girl is an “honor student?” They must really lower the bar for honor students in Fort Worth. Her attitude shows her immaturity: A pregnant woman’s #1 concern, from conception until birth, is the health of the unborn baby, all personal desires take a back seat. The fact that she’s having a hissy fit about this shows that she’s too selfish for motherhood. This whole thing makes me so disgusted on so many levels.

It’s Bushes fault

This is what happens when the lunatics run the asylum. Coach doesn’t want her on the team because she is pregnant and a bad influence on others and a bad example. Shouldn’t need an explanation. Most agree. It is only the counter culture media that has a problem with this so the coach and others hide behind rationalization of safety which is insincere.

The boy father should also have to sit out of any after school activities (sports, band etc.)

One word: DUMBA$$.

Feel sorry for the kid… IF it emerges into that dippy family… (It might change its mind and head back to wherever it came from!)

If she plays while being pregant…then they would have 7 on their side and that’s illegal

So the story is about why she can’t play a game and not WHAT IN THE WORLD SHE WAS THINKING WHEN SHE GOT KNOCKED UP AT 17?!?

Knocked up teen: FAIL.
Knocked up teen’s mom: FAIL.
Coach and school district: WIN.

If the mother doesn’t have enough sense to counsel this child, then her father should have. She can thank her coach for taking her dad and mom’s place in protecting her even when she didn’t want to be protected. And I think it’s pretty clear that she hasn’t been taught to make good choices for quite a while.

This is about whether or not it is safe to play voleyball while pregnant, NOT whether or not you think it is right that she is having a baby at 17. Her doctor said it was safe to play, so STOP judging her for getting pregnant.

In order to play she should have signed some sort of liability waiver, but she knew the risks and still wanted to play when the doctor said it was ok. At that point, it should be the decision of her and her mother, NOT the school.

I think this all boils down to the reason why the girl was benched. From the way I look at it, she was benched because her performance decreased due to her pregnancy. Not because she was in fact pregnant.

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