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.'"
She did a lot of work on this bill, and likely had a role in planning the exceptions. These poorly written exceptions that is.
The part that really highlighted it for me is she got to experience exactly what those actually mean practically. Of course instead of realizing this was her fault she blamed doctors for not understanding her poorly written law. Republicans can take no responsibility for their actions, its always someone else’s fault