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cbabe

(5,163 posts)
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 12:30 PM Monday

When an abortion isn't: Republican representative's ectopic pregnancy clashes with Florida abortion law

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/22/kat-cammack-republican-florida-abortion-law-ectopic-pregnancy

Republican representative’s ectopic pregnancy clashes with Florida abortion law

Kat Cammack blames left’s fearmongering after medical staff hesitated to give her drugs needed to end pregnancy

Edward Helmore
Sun 22 Jun 2025 18.21 EDT

A Florida Republican congresswoman is blaming fearmongering on the left for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancy that threatened her life.

Kat Cammack went to the emergency room in May 2024 where it was estimated she was five weeks into an ectopic pregnancy, there was no heartbeat and her life was at risk. Doctors determined she needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her pregnancy but since Florida’s six-week abortion ban had just taken effect medical staff were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail if they did.



“There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion,” she told the outlet.

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(Impressive Karen double talk.)


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When an abortion isn't: Republican representative's ectopic pregnancy clashes with Florida abortion law (Original Post) cbabe Monday OP
Hypocrite much, are you?!? maspaha Monday #1
Pretzel brain KT2000 Monday #2
She blames the 'left' for pointing out that MDs risk felony prosecution if they perform abortions.. Princess Turandot Monday #3
Yes KT2000 Monday #5
Cammack had been a Reich-wing fraud for years Grins Monday #4
how do these morons make it through everyday life Skittles Monday #6

Princess Turandot

(4,864 posts)
3. She blames the 'left' for pointing out that MDs risk felony prosecution if they perform abortions..
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 02:36 PM
Monday

...in certain states.

She actually called up Desantis's office from the ER!!! She tried to get a staffer to tell the doctors that ending an ectopic pregnancy doesn't trigger the law, although Fla's law doesn't explicitly say that.

KT2000

(21,533 posts)
5. Yes
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 04:43 PM
Monday

Last edited Mon Jun 23, 2025, 11:41 PM - Edit history (1)

She must know that it is her party that writes the draconian laws, want to monitor women's pregnancies, charge women for having a miscarriage, monitor women going to other states and countries for abortions, have doctors who perform them charged with murder, keep a dead woman on a ventilator so the 8 week fetus matures, allow a woman to bleed out in the parking lot until she is near death,
etc.
She is clueless if she blames the left for anything.

Grins

(8,531 posts)
4. Cammack had been a Reich-wing fraud for years
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 02:39 PM
Monday

Sho once claimed “Obama’s policies” which she never specified, was the reason for the family’s eviction from their ranch, and not that pesky - Pay your fucking mortgage! - Marxism.

She’s a real piece of Reich-wing.nuttery . Glad this on fell on her.

Skittles

(165,337 posts)
6. how do these morons make it through everyday life
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 10:00 PM
Monday

their critical thinking skills are non-existent

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