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Riley Gaines, the former competitive swimmer turned activist for limiting women's sports to women, has swum from Alcatraz prison in California to shore while 31 weeks pregnant – raising some critical responses from her detractors.
According to Fox News, Gaines did the roughly 1.25-mile swim alongside U.S. Navy SEALs and combat veterans, as well as her husband, after getting clearance from her OBGYN.
She posted to social media a picture of herself after the swim, and quickly received vitriol. She said the act "broke the minds of liberals."
Then, on her podcast, Gaines read aloud a few comments and gave her take on each.
"'I guess putting your baby at a risk for click was a decision,'" Gaines read aloud. "I wonder where he got his doctorate. I didn't know Twitter had so many OBGYNs or doctors who suddenly know more about pregnancy and exercising while pregnant than my OB did, who cleared me to do this."
Another X user wrote: "Maybe not the best time to swim in the ocean then lol but what do I know."
"Nothing," responded Gaines. "You know nothing, at least about pregnancy and exercising while pregnant."
"I think I feel so great, and I have the entire time, because I have done things like this regularly, whether being pregnant or not being pregnant," Gaines said.
The following was Gaines favorite reply, she said:
"I love this one. This guy says – this is pretty amazing. He says, 'Imagine the torturous, horrific conditions for the fetus. Breathing, muscles squeezing, adrenaline overdosing, massive pressure on the cervix, womb, sack, and fetus. Then, the sloshing and incredibly loud noises. Quite the sadistic torture. Hope the fetus survives the mother's idiocy to be born, healthy. Poor baby …'
"First of all, my developing child in the womb is not a fetus, at this point. If she were to be born, obviously not ideal to be born nine weeks early and no one is to say for certain what will happen. But viability is 24-ish weeks."
Located on an island in the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was a federal prison for several decades. The Trump administration is considering reopening the facility.
