An Open Letter to Rep. Kat Cammack From a Medical Doctor: It's Abortion Bans That Make Doctors Afraid to Act, Not 'the

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(and the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace)


An Open Letter to Rep. Kat Cammack From a Medical Doctor: It’s Abortion Bans That Make Doctors Afraid to Act, Not ‘the Radical Left’
PUBLISHED 7/10/2025 by Chloe Nazra Lee



A group of doctors join abortion-rights supporters outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024, during oral arguments in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

I remember the day I heard about Dobbs. It was a summer morning during my final year of medical school. I’d awakened in the damp basement apartment I’d rented for a clinical rotation in Pittsburgh. As I scrolled through my news feed, my heart plummeted. There was a resigned and tacitly understood melancholy among the women in the hospital that day. A sisterhood predicated on shared despair was quietly forming during the upheaval of perceived judicial betrayal. Even those of us who barely knew each other might wearily exchange passing glances in the hallway, signaling, “Well, shit. Girl, I know. And it’ll only get worse.”

No woman may escape the cruelty of the nebulous and varying restrictions on reproductive healthcare in the post-Roe world—as Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) discovered in May 2024 when faced with a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy shortly after Florida’s six-week abortion ban took effect. Concerned by the lack of clarity in the wording of the law on the limits of intervention in pregnant patients, doctors reportedly delayed administering intramuscular methotrexate to terminate the pregnancy, out of fear of prosecution. The state of Florida offered clarification to healthcare providers in September 2024. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cammack stated her belief that liberal “fear-mongering” was predominantly responsible for doctors’ fear and the resultant delay in care that could have cost her her life.


Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) leaves a GOP caucus meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on Feb. 28, 2023. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

While I’m sorry for the terror you experienced during an hour of desperate need, Rep. Cammack, I must fervently disagree that this vague spectre of The Left is what’s scaring doctors. What truly terrifies us are real laws, real prosecutions and real threats that punish us for providing basic, necessary medical care.You may meet me—a pro-choice psychiatrist-in-training from un-apologetically blue New York—with skepticism, but I hope you, and other self-identified pro-life politicians, can appreciate the plea in this message. We have more in common than you might initially believe. We’re both professional women who want motherhood and who believe in protecting human lives and the betterment of our communities, though we may differ on the exact means of doing so. I hope this may help you understand the post-Roe fear through my eyes—a view shared by many young female doctors.

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Dr. Caitlin Bernard in Indianapolis on Sept. 28, 2022. (Kaiti Sullivan / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Did you think you would be an exception, Rep. Cammack? That if you “did everything right” as a woman, this wouldn’t happen to you? I don’t mean that condescendingly; I thought that way once. Raised very conservative, a Sunday school teacher, who invested heavily in my education and can keep a home quite well, if I do say so myself, I molded myself into the ideal woman, naively certain that life-altering terror couldn’t find me if I lived a Christ-like life. I was wrong. None of us is exempt from cruel circumstance. This vicious culture, hiding under a vapid veneer of “pro-life” hurts you as much as it hurts every other woman. I’ve seen the “FAFO” memes online about you and read about the threats you’ve encountered since publicly airing your story. I’m sorry for the vitriol, and would encourage activists in the pro-choice camp to offer more kindness. But I would also encourage you not to fan the flames of political polarization and to appreciate the true roots of doctors’ fears in the post-Roe world with intellectual honesty. My voice counts for relatively little. But Rep. Cammack, your voice and your story have power. I hope you use them to reintroduce nuance and common sense to the discussion on women’s lives. There are many of us who will extend a hand across the aisle and work together with you to right some of the senseless wrongs.


https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/10/rep-kat-cammack-medical-doctor-abortion-bans-that-doctors-afraid-act/

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1. So, she could have died, legally, in a hospital because of Draconian reproductive health laws she supports, but

she says the pro-choice groups are to blame.

"In order to convince the hospital staff, she pulled up the law on her phone and even tried to call the governor’s office. Hours later, doctors gave her methotrexate to expel the embryo.

"The congresswoman placed blame not on the state law, which allows abortions and related procedures to protect the life of the mother, but on pro-choice messaging... (She's) a co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, opposes abortion in many circumstances; however, she believes the procedures are acceptable when the mother’s life is at risk and in cases of rape or incest.

"She is pregnant again, and her due date is this summer."

Stupid and stubborn hypocrite, but also, she knows how hard it is to get elected to public office in MAGAty Florida if you're a actual thinking human being with a soul and a vagina. And, every pregnant person in FL needs to have DeSantis on speed-dial, as well as a copy of the FL statutes, their living will, and their last will and testament in their hospital go-bag.