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.'"
“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.'"
‘My abortion is different and special’
You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought.
Oh no, a few hours delay while they verified that they weren’t going to break Florida’s draconian laws and face criminal prosecution. You should celebrate, the law is working as designed!
Fucking gutter scum.
The sooner we rid ourselves of the conservative/regressive cancer killing our society, the sooner our quality of life improves.
Fuck that stupid cunt.
Actually, don’t do that, she obviously doesn’t understand how anything works.
She should be happy she lived. Some don’t.
I’m very much unhappy she lived.
Republican: Starts a fire
Republican: sticks their hand in the fire and burns themselves
Republican: in their panic, they set their entire house on fire
Republican: “THE EVIL GODLESS DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS, GOD DAMN THOSE WOKE LIBERAL DEVILS!”
“Blame the Democrats” works as a strategy because conservative Democrats will just mirror whatever a more-popular Republican is saying in order to win votes. That’s how Al Gore fucked us all in 2000. That’s how John Kerry fucked us all in 2004. That’s how Hillary Clinton fucked us all in 2016 and Harris fucked us in 2024. Nevermind all the downticket races where some empty suit or partisan hack tries to run to the right by screaming “I hate liberals!” louder than the Republican in the race.
Florida is absolutely flush with “Pro-LIfe” Democrats. It’s not uncommon to live in a blue county in a red state, where liberal municipal officials meticulously enforce fascist legislation on the grounds that they’re powerless to do otherwise.
The end result is Republicans getting away with this bullshit by insisting “We don’t oppose all abortions, just the wrong kind of abortions” and then pointing to the Democrats stuck with the drudgework of enforcing their shitty laws when it comes time to pass blame. Democrats could resist Republican legislation as fiercely as Republicans fight liberal laws in red states and districts. But if they’re just the lackeys of reactionary state government, they’re easy whipping boys.
I’m not a Harris fan by any means, but what did she do to “fuck us?”
I mean, her stance on Israel and Palestine wasn’t great, but it was massively better than Trump.
what did she do to “fuck us?”
Three months campaigning with Liz Cheney, one of the least popular politicians in the country, just for starters.
And shutting down Palestinian voters, saying she’d stick to the Biden plan, not saying no more money, vetos, and weapons for genocide…
Yes, letting the guy who actively supports the genocide win was a much better option. I’m sure she learned her lesson.
I mean… trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach given the way the current voting system works.
If anything, it seems that Biden and the DNC fucked us by not having a primary. Biden should have committed to a one and done. She may have fucked us by accepting the nomination without a primary, but I honestly blame Biden for that far more.
I do agree that Kamala didn’t help the situation all that much. But I still don’t see how she really fucked us.
I mean… trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach given the way the current voting system works.
How many elections must they fail to win before it finally becomes obvious that, no, it is not a reasonable approach.
And to really drive the point home, how much did Obama go to the right to win? Or how much did he run on actually trying to improve this fucked country?
I’m a bit confused, are you saying Obama was not center left and occasionally right leaning? I would have sworn he relied on market-based solutions for healthcare, supported for free trade agreements, aggressively used executive military power and drone striked the shit out of the middle east, and the maintained many Bush-era tax rates. He even had a beer with a cop who arrested a black man trying to get into his own house as an “apology” for stating the cop acted stupidity (the cop did) during his first term. So, he went to the right during his actually presidency. Am I mis-remembering these things or something?
trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach
It consistently failed to win elections
It was how Biden won his election, so… it has won elections. It was just a bad strategy for Harris.
It was how Biden won his election
Biden ran to the left of Sanders in 2020
She ran as a republican
They do it because it works. How often do you see a post where the comments make it clear that most people read the headline, but not the article? If enough people internalize the headline and pass it on socially, the message spreads like wildfire because 1) we are more inclined to believe news we have heard from known friends and 2) because the article with real information is separated from the conversation and probably difficult for the person to find.
We don’t live in a society based on facts anymore. It’s reactionary headlines playing a game of telephone
“Misleading messaging” i.e. saying that the law prevents things like this instead of just straight-up shooting a toddler in the face, which is what most Republicans seem to think abortion is. Rot, bitch.
Jesus Christ, what a stupid bitch.
Time for this one again: https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
And all the kittycats go “MUNCH! CHEW! NOM!”
The idiots thought that 6 weeks is 6 weeks from the intercourse, so “plenty of time to discover it”.
Instead it’s 6 weeks from the last period, meaning in most cases, unless you were actively trying to get pregnant, when you discover that you’re pregnant the 6 weeks are already passed or almost passed. You can’t even know that the pregnancy is ectopic before 8 weeks, because at 6 weeks the embryo is so small that you can’t see it with the ultrasound.
And in this case, an ectopic pregnancy, the embryo is planted in the wrong position, so there are only two outcomes:
- Surgical removal before the 8 week (technically a forbidden abortion)
- Do as God intended and do nothing (at the 10th week the embryo dies because can’t grow and after weeks of extreme pain the mother dies of hemorrhaging and sepsis)
So, maybe if the mother at the 5th week and half was experiencing some weird pain in the belly, and had a good insurance that covered a transvaginal ultrasound, they could discover the problem and schedule the abortion before the deadline.
If the mother didn’t have a good insurance, just thought “well maybe my belly pain it’s just a temporary problem because I’m a week late with my period”, when the doctors discover the problem they will say “sorry we discovered the problem 3 days too late according to the arbitrary deadline that the legislators decided, you have two painful weeks left and then you’ll die”
…and had a good insurance that covered a transvaginal ultrasound…
Republicans: … … TRAAAAAAAAAAAANS?!
In a follow-up interview with Palmeri, Cammack said her experience brought her "down a path of understanding…
Yep. Sounds legit.
Empathy? Never heard of it
These peopleIf Conservatives had empathy they wouldn’t be conservative.
“I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face” Says the supporter of the “Face Eating Leopards” party.
“I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face” Says the CHAMPION of the “Face Eating Leopards” party.
“I didnt think the leopards would eat MY face” says the person who removed the gates and actively held people down so leopards could eat their faces
Is she like medically stupid?
She’s mentally ill. All conservatives/regressives are. It’s why they support a felon rapist pedophile over their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of their nation.
Well, she is a Republican and she’s from Florida.
Clinically as well
No, she’s a liar.
Stop letting these people hide behing mental deficiency. They’re not stupid, they’re disposable trash and they choose to be.
they think it dint affect them, or the legislation wasnt going to enforce it? republicans always assume the contrary when evidence points to the opposite. if its too good to be true, republicans believe it.
They are trying to go back to a system where the rules are universal but selectively enforced against people they consider to be “other.” Their shock and confusion is when the rules they create also apply to them.
They can’t comprehend a world where laws are applied equally. In this situation, she is arguing that the law was only applied equally because the “left” spread information that the law would need to be applied equally, and would have negative consequences for everyone.
Basically, she wanted white privilege and got the oppression she was trying to force on others.
Republicans don’t have beliefs. They don’t have political positions. They pretend to believe whatever might need to be true to help them feel like they’re scoring a point against someone they hate. That is all. Pay attention.
I hate republicans as much as the next non-republican, but one of the main problems we’re facing is extreme polarisation and division. Straw-manning the other side like that isn’t helping anyone except maybe your own ego.
They are real people who also want to live comfortably and be loved by their friends and family. They’ve just been brainwashed and haven’t thought things through enough to brake free from it. So, they believe pretty much anything their cult tells them. It’s horrible and it is stupid, but even smart people believe stupid things some times (even if it’s less frequent).
We need to bring more humanity and cooperation into the world. Call out bad beliefs and behaviours instead of dehumanising the people.
I can sometimes excuse a voter to be ignorant and misled, up to a certain point.
I have absolutely no mercy for a lawmaker whose job is to educate oneself and vote bills based on one’s understanding and representing a political point of view.
Before such a law is passed, there are debates during which I am sure other lawmakers and health professional warned about its consequences. And even if there were not, it was still her damn’ job to find such people and educate herself.
She is the first line of responsibility. She voted the bill. If she’s a willful ignorant, then she’s just fucking incompetent at her job, and she should be removed. Period.
I’m not saying you should excuse anyone’s bad behaviour. And that’s a good point about people in power deserving to be held to higher standards. My point is more to take issue with the problematic behaviour specifically, without exaggerating or straw-manning.
The real way to convert people is to have a one on one discussion and find common ground first, seriously try to understand their side and motivations and then question it deeply. That can disarm them and actually get them to think about why they believe that stuff. Often people who hold stupid beliefs have never properly questioned them.
So, it doesn’t really work in online forums. But, I firmly believe that spreading more hatred is just going to make things worse.
The real way to convert people is to have a one on one discussion and find common ground first
It’s impossible to have a discussion with someone who refuses to listen.
How frequently do people have to scream out loud that they are hateful, bigoted, and entitled to everything at any cost of suffering for others, before you believe them?
Oh absolutely fuck this right down to the balls. “Polarization” my ass- the rest of us have watched ONE group of people continually stab your country in the heart for thirty or forty years while accelerating their rhetoric and we’ve watched the rest of you sit there and accept every one of their transgressions as the new normal.
People like you and this absolutely clownish devotion to taking some imaginary high road so that maybe the fascists will come around one of these days? You are part of the problem and at this point just as deserving of blame than the MAGA garbage. Hell, taking your position would have been too conciliatory during the Bush era- in 2026 it’s beyond embarrassing. And this attitude is partly to blame for the fact that it’s now showing up on our doorsteps too.
“The firefighters aren’t doing a great job putting out the blaze but i’m operating on a higher plane here and I see that the real problem with those serial arsonists setting children’s hospitals on fire is the us-vs-them division between these two sides. I am burdened by my own decency.”
The alt-right is subhuman scum and there is no consequence they could suffer that they wouldn’t have coming to them.
I completely understand why you would hate them so much, but when they feel that hatred directed towards them, it only makes things worse. I urge you to take a serious look at this channel which shows how people with fundamentally different views can find some common ground, under the right circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/@TheEnemiesProject/videos
The first video they did was a trans woman and a MAGA woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQlarHFPoaM
They’re obviously not going to completely convert anyone in a single discussion, but it shows how peoples minds can be opened up when you approach them with empathy and a real attempt to find common ground.
which shows how people with fundamentally different views can find some common ground, under the right circumstances:
I don’t find common ground with fascists. I avoid them or destroy them if necessary.
If empathy worked on Conservatives they wouldn’t be conservative. They’re too stupid to have a conversation. They’re too stupid to change their belief because their beliefs that trans people should die, people shouldn’t have healthcare, people shouldn’t make a living wage, they’ve made these destructive beliefs their entire personality. And changing that would basically become internal suicide to them.
You are why the US is where it is right now.
They are real people who also want to live comfortably and be loved by their friends and family. They’ve just been brainwashed and haven’t thought things through enough to brake free from it. So, they believe pretty much anything their cult tells them. It’s horrible and it is stupid, but even smart people believe stupid things some times (even if it’s less frequent).
So fuck them. They’re completely useless to a successful society. They can completely be left behind while the rest of us move on without them. No one needs anyone who cannot complete a basic complex thought. If you’re too stupid to fucking breathe why should I care about you contributing anything to society?
Nope. They treat “others” like absolute trash, as if we are nothing but scum under their shoe. I am not giving them any empathy. They don’t deserve it.
She failed to realize to pro life whom she supported, women are not people but just breeders to produce more children.
brother sister as parents?
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