Simone Biles made history again this week at the 2024 Paris Olympics when she became the most decorated American gymnast ever. The 27-year-old’s record-breaking success on and off the mat, however, can’t simply be chalked up to talent and training but the pro-life path her family took to give her the best upbringing she could have.
Long before she became a globally celebrated champion, Biles was a neglected child who, after three years of enduring her biological mother’s drug and alcohol abuse, was transferred into the foster care system.
On paper, abortion activists would likely say that Biles was the perfect candidate for meeting her end in the womb. One of the most popular excuses radicals use to justify abortion is that children who are expected to be born into suffering due to suboptimal life circumstances, like Biles, or life-altering genetic conditions or birth defects are better off dead.
Biles’ biological mom was a struggling black woman, the type of woman abortion facilities like Planned Parenthood routinely target. Her struggles with addiction and a lack of involvement from her children’s father left the four young Biles kids, including Simone, suffering.
“There were times where you didn’t know what was going to happen … you didn’t know if there was going to be food on the table, you didn’t know if mother was coming back,” Biles said in her Netflix documentary “Simone Biles Rising.”
After three years in foster care, however, Biles’ biological grandfather Ronald and his wife Nellie adopted
