Rep. Kat Cammack is lucky to be alive, but that’s no thanks to abortion activists and their blatant lies about miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.
Cammack was 36 years old when she first became pregnant in 2024. Her joy turned to confusion and sorrow when she was diagnosed with a cornual ectopic pregnancy that ruptured, causing her to hemorrhage, she recently recounted on an episode of The Tara Palmeri Show.
The interview’s focus, according to Cammack, was supposed to be about “sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill and the work we’re doing to protect women.” Instead, host Tara Palmeri steered the conversation back to Cammack’s tragic encounter with a Florida hospital that was duped into believing the abortion coalition’s pervasive lies that treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies is barred under pro-life laws.
This wasn’t the first time Cammack shared her story, but as the congresswoman clarified in an X post on Wednesday, she did not want that portion of the interview aired due to an ongoing security threat. Palmeri ignored her pleas to wax poetic about why pro-life laws are problematic.
It wasn’t the first time pro-abortion media severely twisted Cammack’s tragedy, and it likely won’t be the last. Shortly after Cammack initially went public about her ectopic pregnancy in 2025, The Guardian ran an article suggesting “Republican representative’s ectopic pregnancy clashes with Florida abortion law.” NewsNation used the newer interview with Palmeri to re-up Cammack’s story in a headline claiming, “Congresswoman’s pregnancy scare tests clarity of Florida abortion law.”
As Cammack, who was almost aborted as a baby, wrote on Wednesday, her life-threatening pregnancy rupture never had anything to do with abortion, as the media insisted.
“The purpose of my treatment wasn’t to terminate a viable pregnancy. It was to prevent a rupture that could have killed me. It has never been classified as an abortion. Not in Florida. Not in any of the 50 states. Not by ACOG. Not by major medical organizations. Not even Planned Parenthood,” Cammack wrote.
One of the most prevalent myths promoted by abortion activists and their corporate media allies following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision was that women would no longer receive life-saving health care in the case of an ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage.
“Women are going to die,” Democrats like Hillary Clinton, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the San Francisco mayor’s office insisted.
“These dangerous laws are putting women’s health and lives at risk and threatening doctors with jail time, including life in prison, for providing the health care they have been trained to provide,” the Biden White House declared without evidence.
Their lies were echoed in emergency rooms, pop culture, and in publications like The New York Times, which flooded its front pages with horror stories about women who sought treatment for miscarriages and other pregnancy complications only to be turned away. Some publications even had the gall to blame pro-life laws for the harms and deaths directly linked to the popular abortion drug mifepristone.
This propaganda didn’t pop up out of nowhere. It was a deliberate deception over the definition of “abortion” planted by the same people who were accusing pro-lifers of harming women.
Induced abortion, the deliberate intention to end the life of a baby, is the “abortion” most commonly referenced in culture and law. In medical settings, the term “abortion” is much broader and covers an array of conditions that ultimately describe the end of a baby’s life in the womb.
Hospitals and doctors code miscarriages that occur before 20 weeks of pregnancy as “spontaneous abortions.” Even the increasingly pro-abortion professional association American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) acknowledges that “the terms miscarriage, spontaneous abortion, and early pregnancy loss are used interchangeably.”
Ectopic pregnancies, when a fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus, often require surgical removal from the fallopian tube in a procedure called “tubal abortion.” These pregnancies may manifest as legitimate because they can yield enough human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to trigger a positive pregnancy test, but have never proved viable beyond 14 weeks gestation at most. As of 2025, ectopic pregnancy is the leading cause of first-trimester death.
Without the balanced and nourishing environment of the uterus and ultimately a placenta, embryos that try to grow can rupture, causing immediate death to the baby and life-threatening bleeding for the mother. Which is exactly what happened to Cammack in 2024.
When the congresswoman arrived at the hospital hemorrhaging, after being told she only had “minutes” to get the lifesaving treatment she needed, her care was delayed. A nurse assigned to Cammack’s treatment reportedly saw an ad claiming that caring for a woman suffering from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy was barred by state law and was concerned about administering methotrexate, “a drug that has been used for decades to treat ectopic pregnancies,” to Cammack.
“A pro-abortion group spent millions geofencing false ads around Florida’s hospitals, telling doctors and nurses they’d face criminal prosecution for treating miscarriages and ectopics,” Cammack claimed.
These ads, Cammack noted, were already under scrutiny by the state “because they misrepresented what the law actually said.”
Nowhere does Florida law prohibit doctors from treating women suffering from ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, or other gestational complications. On the contrary, Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act explicitly confirms that interventions, including abortions, are allowed beyond the state’s six-week limit if “necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life or avert a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman other than a psychological condition.”
Contrary to Democrats’, abortion activists’, and the media’s claims, every pro-life law on the books permits medical professionals to treat ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, or any other potentially fatal complications. Some states, like Texas, have also passed additional legislation designed to counteract the false “women will die” narratives manufactured by abortion activists.
“THOSE groups and those advertisements endangered women. And now many of those same groups are using my story — my baby — to push the exact same lie. Shame on them. The same groups that ran these ads are new attacking me because they know that their pro-abortion mission can’t survive if people know the truth: miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and stillbirths are not abortions,” Cammack wrote.
Even if those exceptions didn’t exist, Cammack had already been informed her baby died, making her treatment even less of an abortion question than it already was. That’s because treating a spontaneous end to a pregnancy does not meet the legal definition of abortion like deliberately instigating the end of a pregnancy, most likely electively, does.
The pro-abortion coalition is constantly complaining about “forced pregnancy,” but they are the ones trying to force women into a false choice: support Democrats and their unpopular unlimited abortion agenda or risk dying from a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy. It is, of course, this messaging that scares doctors and hospitals like Cammack’s 2024 treatment team out of caring for women in desperate need of emergency medical intervention.
“They need you to believe that a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy or a stillbirth belongs in the same conversation as elective abortions of healthy babies and moms. Their entire agenda depends on it,” Cammack concluded in her post.
Cammack would know. She lived to tell the tale.
