Oh come one you know it happens, I've heard a lot about it, this was only a first link I was able to find on subject. Besides, you will see I've used expression if when relating to story from that site, also notice it say Undetermined so they are not refuting it...
here is another article:
ABORTION CAN BE USED TO BOOST ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE
Source: Report News Magazine
Date: February 4 2002
By Celeste McGovern
IT'S that time again. Winter Olympics. You know it because of the outbreak of television commercials from all the "proud sponsors." They show parents driving kids to practice at the crack of dawn, and years later standing proud in the stands as their champion takes a Gold. They show athletes sweating and straining...and smiling proudly on the podium. All very inspirational.
Of course, they don't show the guy who beat his son's playmate's father to death because his kid wasn't getting enough game time. They don't show Olympic officials taking bribes. They don't show teenage athletes injecting steroids like junkies. Or female Olympic athletes deliberately getting pregnant and having abortions--just to boost their red blood cell count for an edge on the competition.
"Blood doping" is a well-known scheme by which athletes take drugs that enhance their blood supply and oxygen supply for an estimated 10% boost in performance. It's especially popular among the endurance sports such as cross-country skiing and cycling.
In the old, unsophisticated days, dopers used to siphon off their own blood, store it while their body re-manufactured their supply, then re-injected the stored supply just before athletic events, for a muscle-fuelling boost. In 1984, a third of the 24-person U.S. cycling team loaded up with transfusions in a California hotel room prior to the Olympics. They won a record nine medals, and their doping scheme wasn't uncovered for months.
Today, athletes pump their veins full of drugs like erythropoietin and Hemohes, blood expanders initially developed for surgery and patients with blood diseases. Vials of the stuff reportedly litter the European cycling tours. And there were lots of questions about the unexplained deaths of 18 high-level international cyclists between 1987 and 1990.
The various athletic drug police learned of the drugs, however, and they now perform blood tests to detect them. Last February, six Finnish cross country ski champions tested positive for banned blood expanders. Two team doctors resigned and a team manager and two coaches were fired after they admitted their guilt.
Still, athletes are determined. Besides ego and national pride, the stakes, including multi-million dollar endorsement deals, are high. "It seems like they play cops and robbers--the athletes and the coaches find a new way to cheat, and the drug committee finds a new way to catch them at it," Mona Passignano, director of research at the Texas pro-life group Life Dynamics reports. "But [the athletes] are always a step ahead."
One scheme that's virtually impossible to ban is pregnancy. Early on, pregnancy has the effect of boosting a woman's blood volume tremendously to fuel her unborn baby's growth. Getting pregnant two or three months before an event and having an abortion days prior to it can grant as much as a 10 percent performance enhancement.
North American athletes have never been implicated in the scheme, says Ms. Passignano, but athletes from countries they compete with certainly have. She quotes 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.
U.S Olympic regulations ban the "pregnancy/abortion" doping scheme, though it's basically an unenforceable law.
http://www.ncln.ca/uwsfl/newsletter28.htm
http://speakout.com/activism/issue_briefs/1380b-1.html
Source: Report News Magazine
Date: February 4 2002
By Celeste McGovern
IT'S that time again. Winter Olympics. You know it because of the outbreak of television commercials from all the "proud sponsors." They show parents driving kids to practice at the crack of dawn, and years later standing proud in the stands as their champion takes a Gold. They show athletes sweating and straining...and smiling proudly on the podium. All very inspirational.
Of course, they don't show the guy who beat his son's playmate's father to death because his kid wasn't getting enough game time. They don't show Olympic officials taking bribes. They don't show teenage athletes injecting steroids like junkies. Or female Olympic athletes deliberately getting pregnant and having abortions--just to boost their red blood cell count for an edge on the competition.
"Blood doping" is a well-known scheme by which athletes take drugs that enhance their blood supply and oxygen supply for an estimated 10% boost in performance. It's especially popular among the endurance sports such as cross-country skiing and cycling.
In the old, unsophisticated days, dopers used to siphon off their own blood, store it while their body re-manufactured their supply, then re-injected the stored supply just before athletic events, for a muscle-fuelling boost. In 1984, a third of the 24-person U.S. cycling team loaded up with transfusions in a California hotel room prior to the Olympics. They won a record nine medals, and their doping scheme wasn't uncovered for months.
Today, athletes pump their veins full of drugs like erythropoietin and Hemohes, blood expanders initially developed for surgery and patients with blood diseases. Vials of the stuff reportedly litter the European cycling tours. And there were lots of questions about the unexplained deaths of 18 high-level international cyclists between 1987 and 1990.
The various athletic drug police learned of the drugs, however, and they now perform blood tests to detect them. Last February, six Finnish cross country ski champions tested positive for banned blood expanders. Two team doctors resigned and a team manager and two coaches were fired after they admitted their guilt.
Still, athletes are determined. Besides ego and national pride, the stakes, including multi-million dollar endorsement deals, are high. "It seems like they play cops and robbers--the athletes and the coaches find a new way to cheat, and the drug committee finds a new way to catch them at it," Mona Passignano, director of research at the Texas pro-life group Life Dynamics reports. "But [the athletes] are always a step ahead."
One scheme that's virtually impossible to ban is pregnancy. Early on, pregnancy has the effect of boosting a woman's blood volume tremendously to fuel her unborn baby's growth. Getting pregnant two or three months before an event and having an abortion days prior to it can grant as much as a 10 percent performance enhancement.
North American athletes have never been implicated in the scheme, says Ms. Passignano, but athletes from countries they compete with certainly have. She quotes 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.
U.S Olympic regulations ban the "pregnancy/abortion" doping scheme, though it's basically an unenforceable law.
http://www.ncln.ca/uwsfl/newsletter28.htm
http://speakout.com/activism/issue_briefs/1380b-1.html
