Kat Cammack recounts emergency room ordeal but claims ‘fearmongering’ by Democrats and pro-choice activists sowing confusion among medical professionals

Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack has revealed that she almost died last year as a result of her state’s six-week abortion ban, which left hospital staff reluctant to treat her ectopic pregnancy for fear of criminal prosecution.

Cammack was only five weeks pregnant at the time, the embryo had no heartbeat and her own safety was in jeopardy, but nevertheless the congresswoman found herself forced to pull up the letter of the law on her phone to argue the case and even put in a call to Governor Ron DeSantis, without being able to reach him, before staff relented and came to her aid.

But surprisingly, given her ordeal, the representative does not feel the law itself is at fault and instead blames Democrats for scaring medical professionals into confusion over their responsibilities.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

That tracks.

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  • [–] 259 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

    Dunno what the fuck else you wanna call it, but hey, gotta do those mental gymnastics.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    https://theauthoritarians.org/

    Authoritarians compartmentalize everything. The conclusions are indisputable and so no two justifications must ever be mentally compared to one another. They don’t even realize they’re doing it, and will assume it is being done to them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Which is why my elementary and middle school teachers hated me. Take a fiercely logical kid who has no qualms about pointing out contradictions, put them up against an authoritarian (who, let's be honest, probably works with kids because they're guaranteed to have power over them), and you're gonna end up with an angry adult and a kid who's regularly put in detention.

    I have zero regrets. Authoritarians can get fucked. The only good thing I can surely say they'd ever done, was that they managed to radicalize me before puberty.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't know your teachers or situation and I am going to wildly generalise here, but having worked with teachers, they were probably just their best.

    They are teaching a syllabus they didn't write (you can only put so much make up on that pig) to a group of largely disengaged students, for generally insufficient pay.

    They probably just wanted to make it through the day without contemplating self harm.

    A spirited contrarian student who fancies themselves an intellectual can be dealt with the ideal way, engaging them, acknowledging the short comings of teaching content to a wide range of intellects/engagement levels.

    Or the less ideal way, draconian authority. Sounds like you ran up against the former. Sorry that was your experience.

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  • I wish I could agree, but my schools had two types of teachers: newbies who were desperate to prove themselves, and tenured teachers who gave no fucks. Even the "cool" science teacher couldn't admit the truth when I came in with three different sources proving he had been spreading a myth to my class. There's no excuse for teachers who can't admit they were wrong - they have one job, to educate. Spreading false information is the opposite of what they should be doing, and I cannot forgive that.

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  • [–] 157 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What a cunt, shame she pulled through.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If a loving god ever existed, he would not allow vile creatures such as this to be in any position of power. Yet, every position of power is filled with exactly this kind of human excrement. Only one thing will get rid of them.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I suspect the story would be quite different if she weren't a white woman working for the state.

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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's why they can only win. It's s closed system and the media refuses to call bullshit.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Worse: The media is highly complicit, they push any agenda that powerhungry sociopaths pay them to vomit into the masses. Without a deinstitutionalized media landscape, the world will never know peace.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago

    Definitely not a cult.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    And this is precisely why the right can get away with doing whatever they want. Their cult will NEVER blame them for anything.

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    anyone who considers “democrats” “the left” needs to be fired and not allowed to run and be in office ever again.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

    Anyone not in the cult is “the left” or some other label that no longer means anything. It’s intentional to keep shifting public perception of anything that isn’t fascist is actually unamerican. No one wants to be an outsider, Timmy. You will enjoy your Medicaid cuts because if you don’t you’re a communist socialist woke CRT DEI feminist politically correct SJW who believes in intersectionality.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    As a foreigner, it's lowkey fucking hilarious to see Americans call everything left-of-center "Leftist/socialist/radical", when even the Democrat party would typically be classed as slightly right of center in many democratic nations. Their attacks on countries like Sweden, Germany, Canada, etc. for enacting basic social programs to stem the damage from addictions and homelessness for example are pretty telling, as though it would be beneficial to society overall to leave people to their fates with no assistance, as though they were fish that jumped out of water onto the beach - as though they should just be left out in the sun to die, and rot in the open air while everyone passes by unconcerned.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It seems like most Americans barely leave their own state, let alone a country that isn’t Mexico or Canada. Having spent a fair time in most European countries, political discussions with locals typically involve how skewed the US perspective is on liberal/conservative views. Like calling Biden or Harris radical leftists. JFC. It’s embarrassing that people actually believe that. The brainwashing here is crazy.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think part of the problem is the lack of money. Specifically, if you don't have enough money, exploring the world and seeing different ways of life isn't an option.

    Poverty is corrosive to personhood and society, since it inherently kills possibilities - education, meeting people, contributing to community, and more.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That is very true. My comment certainly wasn’t a knock against anyone who can’t travel. The value proposition for travel to that extent is a hard sell to someone living paycheck to paycheck. The first time my wife and I went to Europe was largely on credit cards (we were young and paycheck to paycheck as well). We had to give up many comforts over the following years to pay it off.

    The relative geographic isolation here is a major hurdle, and while the internet should be a great tool to discover what potential we have (like not going bankrupt after falling ill), it’s just as useful for big money to control the narrative.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    One thing you can always rely on conservatives for is that they're vile, hypocritical pieces of shit

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Ah, another case of mental illness.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's such a shame, why would she have vote to hurt herself? Is she stupid?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

    Yes. Yes she is.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    This is an important bit of cognitive dissonance occurring right now, Christians do not consider their "medically necessary" abortions to be "abortions." And they don't think anyone BUT them can actually have a medically necessary one, everyone else is using them for birth control. So the laws should become more restrictive, not less.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    She should have stood by her religious and political principles, and just rode it out. It was God's, and MAGA's, will to put her through that ordeal, and he expected her to accept her fate.

    Instead, she defied The MAGA Lord and fought to have a Democratic abortion. She's a Democrat now, destined for an eternity in a fiery torturous Hell. May God have mercy on her damned Democratic Soul.

    /S, nobody really believes that nonsense.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Damn Democrats. They goaded us into getting rid of abortion, which I want. Because of that, I almost died. Democrats and their trickery need to be confined into camps to protect people from the woke mind virus.

    -This Shit-for-Brain's logic

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I'll try harder next time.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Because these malignant narcissists that have infected out political systems are incapable of blaming themselves.

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    does not feel the law itself is at fault and instead blames Democrats for scaring medical professionals into confusion over their responsibilities

    Well, of course this law change doesn't faze a Republican, because they feel like they are able to do whatever the hell they want regardless of what the law says.

    Unfortunately, the people who operate in the real world have to actually consider the consequences of their actions and whether they might be breaking the law. So the fact that the laws concerning the doctors' field of endeavour have been fucked around with makes them understandably confused. Not their fault they're confused. In fact, being concerned about the legality is definitely an indication of professionalism.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I have to wonder if the Doctors weren't trolling her a bit. She had an ectopic pregnancy at 5 weeks. Not only is the abortion necessary, it was within the six-week limit, so it was perfectly legal on all counts. So why would they claim they were confused about the law?

    I suspect they wanted to teach an arrogant Florida Republican a lesson about politics encroaching on the medical decisions between a doctor and their patient, and made her jump through a bunch of hoops first, just to make her feel the fear, anxiety, anger, and frustration of the average citizen whose medical care is being dictated by MAGA Nazis.

    Remember, we are only hearing the side of a professional MAGA Nazi, so she's a proven liar.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    What a dumb bitch.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Baseball, huh?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Are we sure it was an ectopic pregnancy, and not gallstones caused by her diet?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There is also a fat joke I can say but I’m to classy of a lefty to say it. Dumb fat bitch.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Wait, this bitch murdered her baby? Hope she enjoys roasting in hell. /s

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Gotta keep her job you know?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    She immediately went and got knocked up again. Florida should ban breeding by stupid people next.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Slow your roll, she may be a hypocritical piece of shit, but there's no sense in jumping out of the frying pan and into eugenics.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Well that doesn't make any sense! Why would she do that if all abortions are caused by women getting knocked up and then randomly deciding they don't actually want their baby, like the anti-choice narrative claims?

    It's almost as if abortions are actually done for good reasons and the anti-choice people are hateful fucking liars. Weird.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    She’s a little fat to be having a child anyway, obesity causes a lot of pregnancy complications.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Donald is right. Americans are fat and disgusting.

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