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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    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.

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      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.

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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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        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.

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          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?

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            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?

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          trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach

          It consistently failed to win elections

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            It was how Biden won his election, so… it has won elections. It was just a bad strategy for Harris.

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                Id honestly appreciate if you could educate me on this. My understanding is that Biden never even supported socialized healthcare. I’m a bit surprised to hear anyone say he was left of Sanders.