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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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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.

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              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?

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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.

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                  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.

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              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.

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              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?

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      She failed to realize to pro life whom she supported, women are not people but just breeders to produce more children.