{"id":241969,"date":"2021-03-23T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T22:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=241969"},"modified":"2021-03-22T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T23:57:44","slug":"gop-kat-cammack-almost-aborted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/gop-kat-cammack-almost-aborted\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman GOP Rep. Kat Cammack reveals she was almost aborted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Florida congresswoman Kat Cammack, being pro-life isn’t just a matter of policy \u2014 it’s deeply personal. In an interview with EWTN Pro-Life Weekly<\/a>, Cammack shared that her mother was pressured to abort her after she was told that both she and her preborn child would die. Cammack, one of 18 pro-life women newly elected to Congress and the youngest Republican congresswoman, says that experience has shaped her pro-life views.<\/p>\n

In sharing her story, Cammack says that her mother suffered a stroke at age 27, while pregnant with Cammack’s sister. She was able to safely deliver her daughter, but was told by doctors that she would never be able to have more children. “Many years later when she got pregnant with me, she tried to hide it for a long time,” Cammack explained. “The doctors told her, ‘You are not going to survive this pregnancy. You need to abort this child. Not only will you not survive it, this child will not survive.'”<\/p>\n

Cammack says that even her own grandmother advocated for abortion, asking her mother, “Do you really want to die?”<\/p>\n

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“I can’t imagine my mom at the time, single mother, scared, and her own mom telling her to abort. She chose life,” Cammack said.\u00a0\u201cThe pressure and stress that my mom was under, the fear of the unknown, really \u2014 can you imagine waking up every day and your doctors have told you that you\u2019re not going to survive this pregnancy, and you\u2019re making that conscious choice of \u2018I\u2019m keeping this baby, I\u2019m doing this,\u2019 and you could very well die.”\u00a0Cammack said that despite the odds, she was born perfectly healthy, and her mother had no complications.<\/p>\n