A.G. Gancarski
A member of Congress from North Florida says she is facing death threats after her story about an ectopic pregnancy that nearly killed her.
U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack says her team had to “evacuate our offices due to imminent death threats against me, my unborn child, my family, and my staff” after a Wall Street Journal story brought her story to the world.
Cammack had to convince doctors to give her a necessary shot of methotrexate to expel the embryo due to the doctors’ interpretation of Florida’s then just-enacted Heartbeat Protection Act.
That law bans abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy in many cases, though “substantial and irreversible harm” to the mother (which was the case here) qualifies as legally sufficient grounds for terminating a pregnancy in the first two trimesters.
Cammack was in Congress at the time the law was passed by state legislators and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. But she nonetheless is being blamed by people who seemingly don’t understand the difference between state and federal legislators for the law’s existence.
Cammack, who appealed to the Governor’s staff for intercession during the ordeal, told the WSJ that “fearmongering at its worst” from the Left was to blame for the seeming misunderstanding of the law.
Though she said what she went through “wasn’t an abortion,” Cammack has since gotten “thousands of hate-filled messages and dozens of credible threats from pro-abortion activists” for disclosing one of the most traumatic events of her life. And those threats, she adds, are “taken very seriously” in this climate of “violence against elected officials.”
Despite the threats and invective, Cammack won’t be silenced.
“I won’t back down in the fight for women and families. Ensuring women have the resources and care they deserve is critical. We need real conversations about maternal healthcare in America — conversations based on truth, not fear,” she said Wednesday.
5 comments
Paul Passarelli
June 26, 2025 at 10:03 am
Without any other info than this story, my reaction is WTF?
An ectopic pregnancy is 100% NOT VIABLE, and it is life threatening to the woman.
Any sane person would have severe reservations about a law that misclassified this medical emergency as a selective termination.
Also, and doctor that allows such a condition to go untreated for any period of time, is probably guilty of gross medical malpractice, and possibly malicious medical negligence.
That does not mean that this condition can or should be used to ‘cheat’ the intent of the law. EP is rare, and statistically and measurable bump in the frequency in which a doctor claims that diagnosis would be solid grounds for an investigation.
Bottom line, neither side of the debate can claim the moral high ground. And as a person with a Y-chromosome, I really don’t have a dog in the abortion fight. But I can boil my position down to two issues:
1) Government overreach into medical decisions.
2) Taxpayer funds being misused for very expensive contraception.
Dave
June 26, 2025 at 10:24 am
Despite Floridians voting heavily in favor of Amendment 4, the bill failed to hit the 60%. Because of that, Florida still maintains one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, which went into effect on May 1, 2024.
As of November 2024, three women in Texas had died because of the state’s abortion ban. Florida seems determined to go down the same path, but Cammack is blaming “liberals”.
No Kate, “liberals” didn’t pass that law. get your fear-mongering straight.
Brian Berry
June 26, 2025 at 10:44 am
Stupid laws evoke stupid reactions. I am glad this woman is okay.
Brian Berry
June 26, 2025 at 10:45 am
Stupid laws evoke stupid reactions. I am sorry this woman is facing death threats and I am glad she is okay.
MaggieC
June 26, 2025 at 11:24 am
Stupid laws do indeed result in stupid responses. Thus, this heifer blames liberals for the alleged fearmongering that resulted in her present situation. She also claims the death threats and other nastygrams are from liberals. I suspect that if they were made available for viewing, we’d see that most originated from bat-shit crazy right-wing evangelicals.
I really don’t care whether Cammack is all right or not. Just as she doesn’t care about other Florida women who, because they aren’t politically connected, won’t receive the treatment–and publicity–she has.