On Sunday, the Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal ran an exclusive interview with Florida MAGA Republican Representative—and co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus—Kat Cammack.
The article was titled "Republican’s Life-Threatening Pregnancy Collided With Florida’s Abortion Politics: Due in August with her first child, Rep. Kat Cammack says doctors last year hesitated to treat her ectopic pregnancy."
In it, Cammack described how in May 2024, she pushed for her right to an abortion—even putting in an unanswered call to Republican Governor Ron DeSantis himself—in violation of her home state's laws banning abortion after six weeks.
And, as should be obvious according to Cammack, the Democratic Party is solely to blame for taking away her right to reproductive healthcare and her right to choose what is best for her body—even under medical advisement.
Cammack has a habit of blaming Democrats for everything and anything.
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Cammack's own party has worked for years to eliminate reproductive freedom by stacking the United States Supreme Court and allowing states to eliminate the right to access comprehensive healthcare—even in cases like Cammack's ectopic pregnancy that wasn't viable.
But the GOP is still blameless in the MAGA Representative's view.
Cammack opted to not have surgery to remove the fertilized egg that implanted in the terminus of her fallopian tube instead of in her uterus. Instead, she wanted to be given the abortion drug methotrexate.
But Cammack—like most women—couldn't legally prove her exact conception date.
The MAGA pro-lifer thought she was five weeks pregnant, but without solid legal proof, anyone who administered the abortion drug she wanted could be charged with a felony under the six-week abortion ban the Republican legislature and Republican governor made state law.
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But the Florida six-week abortion ban law sponsored and passed by the GOP isn't to blame, according to Cammack. The fault lies with Democrats educating the public about the law.
Cammack told the WSJ:
"It was absolute fearmongering at its worst."
But public opinions don’t set healthcare policy.
If a law states a healthcare facility or provider can be charged criminally for providing services, the legal department is required to weigh in, not the general public as Cammack seems to think.
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It's unclear if it's delusion or denial, but Cammack also claimed her abortion wasn't an abortion.
She said:
"There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion."
Some of the most pointed commentary on Cammack's attempts to shift responsibility and delude herself came from Reddit's medicine subReddit—a forum for medical professionals from around the world to discuss medical advances and setbacks.
According to the experts, under the wording of the Florida law and according to medical classification, Cammack had an abortion.
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Cammack's abortion was medically necessary as any pregnancy outside the uterus isn't viable.
But as one obstetrician pointed out, an ectopic pregnancy should never be under a "wait and see" treatment plan, regardless of how many weeks the pregnancy is at.
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As one MD commented:
"The research in obstetrical and neonatal research is clear. People are suffering worse outcomes in the southern USA since Roe was overturned."
"We can all agree you should not need to be an expert in law to practice Obstetrical care."
The hypocrisy of the co-chair of the Pro-Life Caucus advocating for her own abortion, while continuing her fight to limit others' access and options, wasn't lost on these medical professionals.
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Many cited Joyce Arthur's 2000 essay "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion—When the Anti-Choice Choose" wherein the author spoke to abortion providers who found themselves regularly treating the people who picketed outside their clinics, harassing them and their patients, but justified their own abortions.
In 2025, the same scenario still occurs.
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As one Redditor stated:
"I'm glad she had the resources to save her life. I wish she believed that all women were entitled to the same level of care."
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Indeed, if only the pro-life movement included compassion for any person who is pregnant and for all children after they're outside the womb.
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