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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    7 hours ago

    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.