Five-time Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross is getting honest about the invisible scars left behind after an abortion. In her new book, Chasing Grace: What the Quarter Mile Has Taught Me About God and Life, Richards-Ross opens up about an abortion she had two weeks before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. “I made a decision that broke me, and
one from which I would not immediately heal,” she writes in her book set to hit bookstores on Tuesday. The 400-meter sprinter is opening up about her past to help young female student-athletes, but it is a decision that is a long-time coming. She says the shame of having an abortion has kept her silent for nine years. READ MORE
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