Florida Republican Representative Kat Cammack was widely criticized after opening up to reporter Tara Palmeri about having trouble accessing abortion for an ectopic pregnancy in Florida after she helped pass a six-week abortion ban in the state.

Cammack told the Wall Street Journal that she faced delays in receiving treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy shortly after Florida’s six-week abortion ban took effect in May 2025.


Cammack blamed those delays not on the law itself but on what she described as misleading messaging from abortion-rights advocates that had made healthcare workers fearful of legal repercussions, telling the Journal:

“It was absolute fearmongering at its worst. There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion.'"

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    23 days ago

    they win the dumb-as-fuck vote. and thanks to the decades-old war against public education waged by republicants, there’s more and more of them every day.

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      22 days ago

      They can’t wait for the day when all this home “schooling” and anti-science rhethoric sets the US back into the “good old times” where women dealt with kids and kitchen, and black people were slaves.

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        22 days ago

        This isn’t an exaggeration, this is what The Heritage Foundation explicitly wants.

        And so far they’ve gotten almost everything they’ve wanted.