Football vs Abortion

When asked about the dangers of playing football, President Barack Obama said this:
I tend to be more worried about college players than NFL players in the sense that the NFL players have a union, they're grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies. You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That's something that I'd like to see the NCAA think about.

The implication, of course, is that college players need someone to look out for them, to help them make decisions, to play or not. 

Source:  http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41223022/

In 2001 when he was an Illinois state senator, Obama declined to take a position on two pieces of legislation that would have required parental notification for minors who have an abortion, voting "present" instead of "yes" or "no." But five years earlier, he had filled out an issues questionnaire for the influential Independent Voters of Illinois Independent Precinct Organization opposing such notifications. "Do you support parent consent/notification for minors seeking abortion?" the survey asked. "No," he wrote.…

Source:  http://www.citelighter.com/political-science/politics/knowledgecards/obama-abortion

So we can summarize these conflicting points of view by saying that President Obama believes young girls are equipped to decide for themselves if they need birth control, the morning after pill, or an abortion, without the advise and consent of a parent.  But young men are not capable of deciding to play football or not.