USA Today: NCAA & leagues shouldn’t play big games in Texas as long as Texas plays games with women’s lives

September 24. 2021

ERA Executive Director Noreen Farrell was quoted in a USA Today piece commenting on the Texas abortion ban’s effects on professional and college athletes.

“We do not have athletic choices, or work choices, if we do not have reproductive choices,” Noreen Farrell, executive director of Equal Rights Advocates, an organization dedicated to protecting economic and educational access for women and girls, said in an email.

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