The hypocrisy is astounding.

Florida Republican Representative Kat Cammack was widely criticized after opening up to reporter Tara Palmeri about having trouble accessing abortion for an ectopic pregnancy in Florida after she helped pass a six-week abortion ban in the state.

Cammack told the Wall Street Journal that she faced delays in receiving treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy shortly after Florida’s six-week abortion ban took effect in May 2025.

Cammack blamed those delays not on the law itself but on what she described as misleading messaging from abortion-rights advocates that had made healthcare workers fearful of legal repercussions, telling the Journal:

“It was absolute fearmongering at its worst. There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion.'"

  • Canaconda@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

    #1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    #2 - The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    #3: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    #4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people infallibly turns out to be a costly mistake

    Law #5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.

    • Talcosis@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      Law #2 is at issue here. You and I would both probably outsmart a cat…until intelligence is measured by the ability to catch a rat.