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Riley Gaines Demands Congress Defund Planned Parenthood While Celebrating Pregnancy

Riley Gaines is an ex-NCAA swimmer turned conservative activist. That latest wailing cry, this time to defund Planned Parenthood, has set...

She announced, in a post celebrating her third trimester pregnancy, that she’s been “fighting for this little girl long before I ever heard her heartbeat” while urging Congress to pass the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that would strip federal funds from the family planning organization. However, critics were not slow to point to the alleged hypocrisy: “Protecting women by defunding healthcare for women…A new low by the mediocre swimmer,” said one detractor, bringing up Gaines’ swimming days before her political commentary career began. Her party announcement and defunding fight appear to thrust Gaines into the national spotlight as a champion of traditional values-or at least one simultaneously accused of systematically denying women healthcare with every step she takes.

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