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.'"

  • tempest@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    You’re close but it’s actually

    “They’ve decided that if I die if I don’t get it then it’s not an abortion, for everyone else it is an abortion”

    Small distinction I know but it makes a world of difference.

    You could likely actually trim it up a bit to a more simple

    “If I get it, it’s not an abortion”