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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They aren’t actually wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days 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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah, another case of mental illness.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

we wrote these laws to be vague so that white people like me could get treatment!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe we make an ethical compromise and say stupid people shouldn't be allowed to raise children.

Imo stupid is not really passed through genetics, it's more an issue of exposure.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is a public safety proposal, not eugenics.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

it's very simple: if someone registers as a republican they immediately get sterilized. it's their choice and it's for the good of the public

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

The Democrats are just FEARMONGERS! ANYONE can call up Ron DeathSentence to Show the Staff they WONT go to Jail if they MURDER THIS BABY for Me!

[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It serves it's purpose: Propaganda

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days 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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

These maga cultists think DICK CHENEY of all people is a commie librul. Forget left of center.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

love that pic. gonna steal it because I’m a lefty commie anarchist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Feel free to yoink, that's how I got it.

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[–] [email protected] 264 points 5 days ago (6 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I loved that show.

[–] [email protected] 162 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What a cunt, shame she pulled through.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

I can imagine a loving God allowing these vile creatures to exist, but I can't believe he would allow them to speak for him.

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