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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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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 451 points 1 week ago (8 children)

"what I went through wasn't an abortion."

Wooooow. The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 179 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it couldn't have been an abortion, there was no satanic priest in a hooded black robe, goat skull headdress, and ritual dagger

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And nobody ate the "baby" I guess?

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

It's only a real abortion if you believe it in your heart.

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[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 118 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Welcome to 'murica, where everything is made up and the definition of words don't matter!

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[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The only moral abortion is her own

[–] bajabound@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Only whores and trollops would have an abortion. This is a life saving procedure! /s

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 58 points 1 week ago (13 children)

The procedures are often the same. A D&C is a D&C, whether it’s used to deliberately abort a viable fetus or to clean out an unviable fetus. It literally means to Dilate the cervix (so the doctor can see inside and get their instruments in there) & Curratage (use a tool to scrape tissue out of the uterus).

Or popping a pill to expel a fetus, viable or otherwise. Mifeprestone then Misoprostol vs Methotrexate then Misoprostol. In both cases, the first drug stops development, and the second drug expels the fetus.

In all of these cases, you’re aborting the fetus. The context changes, the act is the same.

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[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 239 points 1 week ago
[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 190 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Another great example of why people who show no capacity for empathy should be shunned from society until they change. She cries about her own abortion, but how many women have already died before she decided to shed a tear for herself?

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 168 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 84 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Stupid, piece of shit.

I'm done not pointing out the massive correlation between being evil and being a dumb mother fucker.

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[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 84 points 1 week ago (3 children)

People who don't understand the inplications of their own actions and then blame others for their ignorance are getting tiring.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Its the Democrats' fault for not warning us of the consequences of our own actions well enough.

-Republicans

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh remember when Senator McConnell blamed Obama for not warning he and his dumbass party for the obvious unintended consequences for passing the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act?

It's a proud Republican tradition of being fucking proud morons.

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[–] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s an abortion until it’s MY abortion, then it’s life saving medical care.

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[–] metermatic26@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (4 children)

“…even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion.”

Wait, so the baby was not…you know…’aborted’?

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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (4 children)

“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!

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

✋Obamacare 👉 Affordable Care Act

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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:

  1. Surgical removal before the 8 week (technically a forbidden abortion)
  2. 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"

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Because of her ingrained belief system, brainwashed into her mind since childhood, she absolutely cannot face the fact/admit to herself that she actually had an abortion. Yes, it was objectively and truly an actual abortion.

Assuming that like most evangelicals her belief is that life begins at conception, to admit that she had an abortion would be to admit that she herself is what she accuses other women who have abortions to be: immoral sluts who murder children as their birth control method of choice. She would also have to acknowledge that by her actions she has caused immense pain and suffering, even death in some cases, to other women.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

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!"

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cammack blamed those delays not on the law itself but on what she described as …..

So she didn’t learn anything either

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Is she like medically stupid?

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 week ago (15 children)

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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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

These people are some of the dumbest people that exist. They have to be, to be this unaware intentionally takes so much brain power.

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face" Says the supporter of the "Face Eating Leopards" party.

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[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

Jesus Christ, what a stupid bitch.

[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

What a fucking cunt, she should have died

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She certainly seems to have been willing to see other women suffer that fate.

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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion

It definitely was. Even the Catholics will agree it was an abortion. So now both sides hate you.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They really are just that fucking dumb. A country ruled by idiots. How is reality so much worse than Idiocracy?

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm down voting for the word "Slammed." If it turns out she was really picked up, and dropped over a knee, I'll remove it.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It is amazing how terminally dumb people can be and still get elected.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This seems to be the playbook, every time. Magas blame medical staff, not the laws.

Licensing is rigorous and as a medical professional, you’re allowed 1 license a lifetime. A doctor spends 12yrs of their life becoming a doctor, goes $200k+ in debt to get there, and these MAGAs talk like they expect doctors to interpret law instead of medicine.

The law says no, so either the doctor doesn’t do it, or they leave the state and practice in one that allows them to make medical decisions for their patients instead of a lawyer with religion sitting in public office.

Let’s not forget the doctor that was publically threatened for legally performing an abortion on a child of 13yrs who had been raped and impregnated by her rapist. The child was from a state where abortion was illegal.

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In a follow-up interview with Palmeri, Cammack said her experience brought her "down a path of understanding...

Yep. Sounds legit.

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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago
[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Go fuck yourself, pedo-protector

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She should be happy she lived. Some don't.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Fucking gutter scum.

The sooner we rid ourselves of the conservative/regressive cancer killing our society, the sooner our quality of life improves.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (7 children)

“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'

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