July 31, 2025
After courageously sharing about her own life-threatening ectopic pregnancy and receiving death threats for it, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) will now push for truthful, clear medical information and guidance in naturally non-viable pregnancy circumstances like miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy.
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a baby in the embryonic stage implants outside the uterus, where he/she cannot develop or survive. These cases are completely distinct from abortion, which is the intentional destruction of a preborn human life using drugs or surgical implements. Read more here.
Rep. Cammack introduced the Truth in Women’s Healthcare Act on July 25th to shed a light on misinformation surrounding emergency care for pregnant women.
In May 2024, Rep. Cammack herself was rushed to the emergency room with a life-threatening pregnancy. Her preborn child had no heartbeat, and Cammack reportedly needed medication known as methotrexate.
Since Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act had just gone into effect, the medical staff who saw her were afraid they could lose their licenses or face jail time if they administered this medication. The doctors estimated that she was around five weeks pregnant, and after deliberation, she did receive the medication.
Rep. Cammack’s caretakers may have been well-meaning, but this situation is yet another example of how abortion activists have succeeded (for now) in confusing and scaring doctors with misinformation campaigns around legislation that defends Life.
No state law prohibits life-saving care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.
Procedures to treat an ectopic pregnancy or deliver a miscarried, stillborn, or otherwise naturally passed preborn baby are not abortions. Read more about the distinction. Most pregnancy complications, according to Cleveland Clinic, “are treatable, especially when your pregnancy care provider detects them early.”
These are the several common “treatments” for ectopic pregnancies:
- Methotrexate, a powerful drug that is commonly used in the treatment of cancers and rheumatoid arthritis, but also used as an abortion drug because it is toxic to trophoblastic tissue, which is the outer layer of the blastocyst that provides necessary nutrients to the developing human.
- Surgery, which takes the form of either a salpingostomy or a salpingectomy. The former involves incising a hole into the fallopian tube and removing the blastocyst/embryo. The latter involves removing the entire section of fallopian tube where the new human implanted.
This is why Rep. Cammack’s bill matters—it reaffirms that medical ethics, compassion, and TRUTH must guide care, not confusion or political pressure.
Her website stated that her experience “revealed how reckless and dangerous the abortion lobby’s disinformation campaign has become—conflating emergency medical care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies with elective abortion—to push a broader narrative.”
In the Truth in Women’s Healthcare Act, she urges Congress to:
- “Recognize the need” to shape future policy to ensure medical professionals understand they are allowed to treat ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages;
- Ask medical providers to make it clear to the public that treating ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is legal in every state;
- Call for medical organizations to accurately advise members about the differences between “elective-induced abortion” and lifesaving care for ectopic pregnancies & miscarriages;
- Call for higher education institutions training doctors, nurses, & other emergency department personnel to instruct their students about the differences between elective-induced abortions and lifesaving care for ectopic pregnancies & miscarriages, as well as “the critical-thinking processes they need to make these decisions with their future patients.”
At Students for Life Action (SLFAction), we know that pro-life laws protect both mother and child—and that clarity saves lives. The abortion lobby’s scare tactics must be replaced with truth, compassion, and medical integrity.
Rep. Cammack’s resolution would empower medical professionals to make life-saving decisions rooted in medical ethics, not rhetoric from the abortion lobby.
After a season of hardship, Rep. Cammack now enters a time of joy with the upcoming arrival of her rainbow baby girl.
READ MORE: Fact Checking the Fear Mongering by the Abortion Lobby