In May 2024, Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack arrived at the emergency room and learned her life was in danger. She needed the same reproductive healthcare that she had worked with colleagues to deny other women through Florida’s six-week abortion ban. And here’s the kicker: She blames “The Left.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that Cammack needed to be injected with a shot of methotrexate, and she told the outlet that doctors and nurses who saw her said they were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail if they gave her drugs to end her pregnancy.
We’ve seen this happen over and over again ever since the right, with Trump at the helm, began attacking women’s rights to health care.
On the 31st, Cammack said a doctor found the embryo implanted where the fallopian tube meets the uterus, which is considered a cornual ectopic pregnancy. “If this ruptures, it’ll kill you,” he told her.
That’s when Cammack decided she needed the shot of methotrexate, which blocks folic acid needed by the embryo to grow.
“What happens to women who don’t have a car?” she asked. “What happens to the women who don’t have their doctor’s cellphone number? Hell—do they have a doctor? What happens to them?”
