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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    And shutting down Palestinian voters, saying she’d stick to the Biden plan, not saying no more money, vetos, and weapons for genocide…

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      Yes, letting the guy who actively supports the genocide win was a much better option. I’m sure she learned her lesson.

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        Well she’s talking to Mamdani now. So maybe she has finally accepted that being anything other than full anti-Israel is a losing position.