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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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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Fucking gutter scum.

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

[–] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 7 points 3 hours ago

Fuck that stupid cunt.

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

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

I'm very much unhappy she lived.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

And all the kittycats go "MUNCH! CHEW! NOM!"

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 33 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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!"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

"Blame the Democrats" works as a strategy because conservative Democrats will just mirror whatever a more-popular Republican is saying in order to win votes. That's how Al Gore fucked us all in 2000. That's how John Kerry fucked us all in 2004. That's how Hillary Clinton fucked us all in 2016 and Harris fucked us in 2024. Nevermind all the downticket races where some empty suit or partisan hack tries to run to the right by screaming "I hate liberals!" louder than the Republican in the race.

Florida is absolutely flush with "Pro-LIfe" Democrats. It's not uncommon to live in a blue county in a red state, where liberal municipal officials meticulously enforce fascist legislation on the grounds that they're powerless to do otherwise.

The end result is Republicans getting away with this bullshit by insisting "We don't oppose all abortions, just the wrong kind of abortions" and then pointing to the Democrats stuck with the drudgework of enforcing their shitty laws when it comes time to pass blame. Democrats could resist Republican legislation as fiercely as Republicans fight liberal laws in red states and districts. But if they're just the lackeys of reactionary state government, they're easy whipping boys.

[–] Alkali@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not a Harris fan by any means, but what did she do to "fuck us?"

I mean, her stance on Israel and Palestine wasn't great, but it was massively better than Trump.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

what did she do to “fuck us?”

Three months campaigning with Liz Cheney, one of the least popular politicians in the country, just for starters.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

She ran as a republican

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

They do it because it works. How often do you see a post where the comments make it clear that most people read the headline, but not the article? If enough people internalize the headline, and passes it on socially, the message spreads like wildfire because we are more inclined to believe news we have heard from known friends and because the article with real information is separated from the conversation and probably difficult for the person to find.

We don’t live in a society based on facts anymore. It’s reactionary headlines playing a game of telephone

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago
[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 36 points 10 hours ago

Jesus Christ, what a stupid bitch.

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