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MAGA Rep. Slammed After Tearfully Blaming Democrats For Having Trouble Accessing Abortion She Helped Ban In Florida (www.comicsands.com)

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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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Biden never even supported socialized healthcare

So, apologies for the source as this is one of the right-wing "it's too much money!!!" type articles.

That said:

But the big hallmarks

Public option
Expanded Medicare Enrollment
Expanded Federally Funded Rural Health Care

are all socialized health care policies.

I’m a bit surprised to hear anyone say he was left of Sanders.

He didn't govern to the left of Sanders once in office. But back at the height of COVID and with Sanders coming out as the frontrunner in polling, he campaigned to the left of Sanders.

Hardly the first time he's pulled this trick, either. As Obama's VP candidate, he openly advocated for everything from public housing to student debt relief to expanded Medicaid. As Senator, he regularly championed expansive public programs for alternative energy and high speed rail, for public works in areas with high unemployment, and for public intervention when pharmaceuticals or insurance or food costs spiked. Then he rolled it all back the moment the polls closed.