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.'"

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    Again I say, the bottom 1/5 of the population’s idiots shouldn’t get to vote, I in no way believe we couldn’t make a comprehensive intelligence and decision making ability test using international standards to prevent minority group targeting and peroperly sort out the stupids from everyone else, give those that get left out of voting a large ubi (20k pegged to inflation) but not enough to really live on and penalize willful joblessness if they’re young with fines.

    The big ubi is there so they’ll be represented as well as anchor the non-voting block and preventing it from growing so nobody can cry about a slippery slope, these people can instead can act as or strongest consumer and creatives, build business and futures.

    (I don’t want them rounded up into camps or anything, I just want them out of federal decision making, they can do other things to make society a better place and make they’re mark.)

    Cap assets owned in Canada to 5 - 10 billion (pegged to inflation) with a 90% tax rate if you touch this level by the end of the year. And maybe tax v smart individuals a bit more due to there natural advantage (only a bit like an extra 5%-10% and not if your broke) finally, if the rich want more they have to push the nations development if they ever want that total asset cap raised.

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      You can’t do a little eugenics without risking Full Blown Eugenics, unfortunately or not.

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        I’m totally for a basic civics test in order to vote. You should understand what you’re voting for and what it means and why.

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              And it was easy to decern this and instead of making a proper federally recognised standard you threw the baby out with the bath water and again, I’m seeing people here liking literal death threats to the person this post was originally about, is that better then having a civics test, you people act like you both have all the power and none of it at the same time.

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                Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.

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                  Can you do anything other then quote other people? What you just posted has nothing to do with that I said.

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                    It’s everything to do with what you said. And if someone said something in a clear, concise manner, I’m not reinventing the wheel.

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        You fundamentally don’t know what eugenics is, I’m not trying to breed anybody and I’m not trying to get rid of anybody. This is what a real meritocracy looks like.

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            Me pointing out your wrong about a term is me being an Asshole? Really now. It sounds more like I struck a nerve in some self-contious people and theyre looking for a fight like you are right now.

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                Maybe but it’s rude to throw that in people’s faces, I’m not saying I’m a genius or anything either btw, (edit) I understand people want to be nice but I’m tired of people crying about stuff like this, I’m seeing people in this vary page wish death upon this person here in the picture, getting mad likes but me saying maybe we shouldn’t let them vote and suddenly everyone’s throwing a hissy fit, it’s hypocrisy, they act like I’m adalf trying to start the forth reich when I suggest maybe they should focus on themselves and not on governmental decisions that effect everyone. They’re still being represented so I fail to see the issue and people are providing 0 counter arguments asside from the one person above who was just straight up just being factually wrong and attacking my character.

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                    Im fine, im not trying to get a rise out of people, if hypocrisy, disingenuous behavior, and playground insults actually hurt my feelings past making me think less of people’s general supposed honesty and integrity, id not talk to anyone online ever.

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      I in no way believe we couldn’t make a comprehensive intelligence and decision making ability test using international standards to prevent minority group targeting and peroperly sort out the stupids from everyone else

      I do believe that. Especially since whatever organization you task with that can still be bribed or manipulated.

      I’m personally partial to a different, more objective mechanism: we already restrict voting and eligibility for office for people that are too young, don’t we? Let’s do that for people that are too old too. Take the life expectancy of a country and anyone that’s beyond that can’t vote or hold office. You’ve already done enough to shape the country, now leave it to people that might actually get to keep living in it.

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        Yes but this is harder to do and can be tracked, that and the substance of the test would also make it obvious if a group was being targeted

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          I’m not really confident in what can or cannot be tracked considering there was an island where most of the world’s elites were flying to have sex with little girls and we started having the smallest idea after like 10 years.

          The fact that it would be obvious wouldn’t really matter either: first, reality itself has already been denied plenty of times (see the above “my abortion wasn’t an abortion”), and second, even if we all agreed that a group was being targeted… what of it? Would anyone be able to do anything about it? We have a huge list of people who have 100% been on Epstein’s island and therefore at minimum knew what was going on. How many suffered consequences? Is anyone arresting or prosecuting them yet?

          Sorry if this comes off as defeatist but recent years really made me lose most of the little faith I had in law and common sense. It feels like people in power WILL exploit any tool you give them for personal benefit and there’s gonna be nothing to stop them.

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            Well I mean you would be able to tell if a test was flagging one specific group in the same way most people can tell that an iq test is actually reading a person’s pandern recognizing ability under time pressure, many would still notice the discrepancy unlike the island of pedo that were specifically hiding from everyone to avoid scrutiny.

            Oh and people from epstine’s Island have faced justice, outside of the USA and isreal

            And no no, your not wrong to be skeptical, I mean look at how many people came out of the wood work to attack me rather then actually engage with the question, what matters is transparency and people’s willingness to hold people accountable.

            This is all obviously not going to happen, if I believed this would actually work I wouldn’t be here right now talking about it on this messaging board, I’d be attempting to talk to politicians and the rich but we both know those 2 group depend on these systems to hold power and they’d never Willingly let it happen because it would screw them.

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              Oh and people from epstine’s Island have faced justice, outside of the USA and isreal…

              Eh, the only one that comes to mind is Prince Andrew, apparently Peter Mandelson too but I just found out. Every other person on the list has barely been questioned to my knowledge, and while most of them are American, it’s not all of them.

              In any case, it’s just an example of how, even given clear evidence of “something being wrong”, the law ultimately does nothing to most of the perpetrators. And it happens with the police, with giant corporations, with world politicians… I just don’t think anything would actually be done even if it was apparent that the test was discriminatory.

              And then of course, as you said, I don’t think this can realistically happen either with our current landscape, we’re just “whatif”-ing on the internet and that’s fine.

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      I’m convinced most Americans don’t believe in democracy, not just our leaders. Exhibit A:

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        A. Not an American

        B. how is still letting 80% of the population vote not majoritvely democratic,

        and C. Your right, I think in a full democracy people are way to easily swayed by emotions and lies. By cutting out some of the more easily manipulated and giving them diff social dutys, I believe this with be mitigated better.

        D. A good number of people on this page are liking death threats to the person this is about. But I’m the bad guy for suggesting people who are measurably dumb shouldn’t vote, yah ok buddy.

        E. It’s not like they have family or friend that wouldn’t still support and appreciate them or anything, are you saying I’m somehow preventing that from happening?

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            Sure, I’m apparently just an example of why a country’s people secretly hate democracy, deff not attaching judgement to anyone making that statement. at least when the others tried to attack me they didn’t try to lamely cop-out when i corrected them in the end 🙄

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              I must have missed the part where you corrected me (at least beyond not being an American). If anything it sounded like you were offering more evidence. You can attack me for saying the quiet part out loud, however it doesn’t diminish what’s being said.

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                  If you want me to explain something then just ask. And no, I don’t think you having an opinion that democracy has it’s limits is preventing families or friends from acting differently.