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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 436 points 5 days ago (8 children)

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

Wooooow. The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 174 points 5 days 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 86 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And nobody ate the "baby" I guess?

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[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 114 points 5 days 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 80 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The only moral abortion is her own

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 56 points 5 days 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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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days 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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[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 232 points 5 days ago
[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 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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[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 183 points 5 days 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 167 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 84 points 5 days 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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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days 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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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Fucking gutter scum.

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

[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

Jesus Christ, what a stupid bitch.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago

You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 82 points 5 days 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 59 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

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

-Republicans

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days 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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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

I'm very much unhappy she lived.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"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.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago
[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Is she like medically stupid?

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 51 points 5 days ago (14 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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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Well, she is a Republican and she's from Florida.

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[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days 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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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

shamefully clueless

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days 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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[–] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 78 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

Yep. Sounds legit.

[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Empathy? Never heard of it
These people

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[–] metermatic26@lemmy.world 68 points 5 days 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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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days 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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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago (5 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!

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[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

What a fucking cunt, she should have died

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Dying of an ectopic pregnancy to own the libs, at least we could respect the consistency.

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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days 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.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days 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.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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!

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 34 points 5 days 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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[–] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 11 points 4 days ago

Fuck that stupid cunt.

Actually, don't do that, she obviously doesn't understand how anything works.

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