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.'"
The baby will never realize how lucky it was
No baby. It was an ectopic pregnancy. They were so anti-abortion that they basically made any medical procedure in that direction illegal, ignoring any medical input.
An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy happening outside the uterus, and the only way to save the mother is to remove the embryo. Such a “pregnancy” never leads to a baby being born if left alone. It’s basically abortion or both die. And those idiots went big ways to make this procedure illegal. Any doctor confronted with such a diagnosis has the option to let the mother die or go to prison.
Shit like that happens when the education system is so anti-science that actual scientific input to a discussion is simply ignored as being too “sciency”. We are talking about the country where they once legally defined the value of the number PI as four…
I know, it was intended to be a dark joke but appreciate the details for anyone else that might be reading.
The article says she’s due in August.
Not with an ectopic pregnancy. That must have been before.
Until they google their mothers name.
Maybe, unless souls with negative karma just end up with mothers like that.