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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    “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.'"

    So it’s all a branding issue?

    Abortions for none, embryectomies and uterine evacuations for all who want one!

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      These people literally don’t believe in reality so much as they believe in how you talk about it.

      They all believe their specific reality is superior to anything else, facts, words, meaning be damned.

      They’re postmodernists who will tell you they hate post modernism, because they just pretend eords mean whatever they want them to.

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        they just pretend eords mean whatever they want them to.

        This is beautifully ironic. Please, do not correct the spelling of this. I think it helps make your point.

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          I don’t use autocorrect because I refuse to entirely succumb to the machine. Also, on mobile… well, the default keyboard apps sure do send a lot of net traffic… I’m sure its nothing to worry about though.