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.'"
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.
She also acts like the “fear mongering” from medical staff had no basis in reality when there have been women denied medical treatment and forced to let sepsis set in while waiting in the parking lot or teenagers getting arrested for having miscarriages and not knowing what they’re supposed to do.
She also acts as if the laws weren’t written explicitly in defiance of established medical opinion (and biblical opinion for that matter).