July 29, 2025 • 14 mins
In the aftermath of a near tragic personal experience, U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack (FL-3), crafted legislation to help save a woman's life. She talk about the bill, plus the good, bad, and ugly of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Literally turning the page on the rundown. And here we
go into the third and final hour at least for
the today, for to day of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Show fifty four to nineteen. He's ose, I'm
Preston and this is us Congresswoman Cat Camic.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hi, Cat, good morning, how are you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm terrific. You have got to be about like really ready.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I am so pregnant. That's the only way to explain it.
And all of the ladies out there will know exactly
what I mean when I say I am so pregnant,
meaning you can't walk, you can't move, you waddle, you
kind of roll around like a roly poly is. It's
the phase.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And let's just throw into it one hundred degree temperatures,
heat indexes of one hundred and ten. Let's just make
it miserable.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh, I know. We really did the trifecta here of
insanely hot weather, very very uber pregnant, and managing to
trigger every single liberal in all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Let's talk about that. The last time we visited, we
discussed the absurdity that you, your family, your staff had
been uh exposed to because you made some comments about
a pregnancy that you were not able to keep back
a year better a year or so ago. But last
(01:33):
week you introduced a piece of legislation. Let's tell let's
tell people about that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, you know. And and as we're having this conversation,
I look out my window and I see, you know,
a deputy right outside my window. That's that's our new normal, unfortunately,
because of the threat environment that we we now operate
in and live within. Uh you know. It was the
end of June we had a profile done on us
(02:03):
by the Wall Street Journal detailing an ectopic pregnancy that
I had experienced actually ended up being the rarest and
most dangerous type of ectopic pregnancy last year, which for
anybody who is not aware, it is not a viable pregnancy.
They've never been viable, and they typically end up rupturing
(02:24):
and causing internal bleeding to the point that it can
kill the mother. And so it's classified as a life
threatening situation. And for women who have ever experienced this,
which there's about one in twenty five women experience an
ectopic and of course one in four women will experience
a miscarriage in their lifetime. Both require treatment and the
(02:49):
thing that is really scary is we learned firsthand how
the misinformation and the politicization of the issue can really
scared doctors. And in my case, this was about a
month after Florida's heartbeat bill passed, And what ended up
happening was the pro abortion lobby had spent millions of
(03:11):
dollars running ads, even going so far as to geo fence,
meaning they literally would target hospitals and they would push
ads to people's cell phones that were in these these
areas saying that if they treated women who were undergoing
a miscarriage or experiencing an a topic pregnancy, that those
(03:34):
doctors or those nurses would lose their license and go
to jail. And so we experienced firsthand how that caused
a lot of fear and confusion when I showed up
at the er, you know, late one night, and I
ended up having to read the law to the doctors
in the room and making my case. And it's really
(03:57):
just crazy because it then turned into people saying, oh
my gosh, you had an abortion. By the way, not
a single professional medical association has ever classified treatment for
miscarriage or topics as an abortion. That's just a lie
that the left likes to perpetuate, and then they said
things like I voted for the bill, also highlighting that
(04:17):
there's a real problem with literacy and CYMC understanding in
this country. And it turned into something really nasty where
my family, my team, myself, my unborn child, you know,
we were all the subject of a lot of death
threats and still are. And again, this piece was intended
to highlight the real lack of access and resource and
(04:40):
the fact that it's difficult to have a conversation about
healthcare in this country and without it turning political and
low and behold the left prove my point.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Mainstream media never lets truth stand in the way of
a story, and sadly there are enough people that read, watch,
and follow that nonsense that we just have a bunch
of misinformed folks. And as a result. Congresswoman kat Camick
joins us this morning. She represents Florida's third congressional district
and has introduced the Truth in Women's Healthcare Act. What
(05:18):
does it do?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Kat? So, this really came out of our experience, but
also wanting to set the stage for what's to come
down the road, which is an effort to tackle real
challenges in our sick care system, because I think collectively
we can all agree we don't have healthcare in this country.
(05:39):
We have sick care, and it's pretty depressing that you
have health insurance companies making health care decisions for folks.
So we started out with this really setting the stage
for never allowing someone to go through what I went through.
You have heard these stories where, like I did, I
(06:02):
was sitting there, you know, eminently about to bleed out,
and people are saying, well, you know, we're not really
sure if we can, and I'm like, I just read
you the law, and they're like, yeah, but you know
that we keep getting all these advertisements and there's got
to be some truth to that. You know. Little did
they know or could we know at that time, but
the state of Florida actually had to sue these groups
(06:24):
in order for them to take it down. And when
you're living in this this era of just mass overload,
people say anything and it gets taken as truth. You know,
it's kind of like, oh, I saw it on Facebook,
so therefore it has to be true. I can't touch
how scary that is. And then you look at the
broader healthcare space and you know, people are absolutely completely
(06:49):
taken down rabbit holes and craziness. So the Truth in
Women's Healthcare Act was really just making it very clear
that there is a fundamental difference between an elective abortion
where someone says, you know, a woman says I just
don't want to have a kid, and it is a
viable pregnancy, and they terminate the life of their child.
(07:09):
That is something that I am fundamentally against, and I
know so many people who are right, and we're going
to continue that fight for all life because I believe
all life has value. When you have a situation of
a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy, those are not viable pregnancies.
They never have been, they never will be. And again,
(07:31):
if you're pro life, you're going to fight for the
life of the mother. And so really making clear that
the abortion lobby can no longer use women as ponds
in conflating what treatment is for those versus elective abortions.
That's what this resolution does, and it will set the
stage for us to start tackling this with insurance companies
(07:55):
and then getting resources to women in particularly rural and
underserved areas. The entire time I was going through this,
I kept saying to my husband, What happens to women
who don't have a doctor, What happens to the women
who don't have a car. You know, it was really
really scary for me, and I feel really lucky because
I've got a car and a husband and I could
(08:17):
pick up the phone and call my doctor. Not everybody's
in that situation, and so we need to make sure
that we're addressing the real gaps and shortfalls in our system.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kat If I may just we got about a minute
in this segment, but let me take it a step further.
What happens to the woman who's not a member of Congress,
who oh, by the way, knows what the law in
her state is.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I mean, that's what's so crazy. So we actually
started reaching out to the different medical associations, the American
Medical Association, the Association, the College of American College of
kind of Colleges, an ob obstetrics, like, we started reaching
out to them and saying, you guys need to be
pushing out accurate information and you can't let the politics
(09:05):
cloud where things are at based on the era that
we're living in. We have to be true to the
science here. And so this resolution, like I said, it
reaffirms that not a single professional accredited medical association believes
that abortion is what happens when you go through this right,
that's going to then translate into tackling the insurance companies
(09:27):
and how they build. And then it's going to also
create some legal precedent so that again the pro abortion
lobby can never use this as a weapon to hurt women. Ever, again, we.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Know the tax cuts had to get done. It got done.
What is the one thing that is most important in
the OBBB other than the tax cuts?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh? Oh man, there's so much.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
What's the one that's on top of the list, though,
outside the tax.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Cut, outside the text, I would have to say border security. Honestly,
there is no country without borders, right, you can't have
a sovereign nation if you don't have secure borders. And
the hell that we have lived under for the previous
(10:21):
four years of open border policies, the Americans that have
lost their lives, the families that have been broken, the
crimes that have been committed by people who never should
have been here in the first place. I think about
those angel families all the time. And the one big,
beautiful bill it gave the most significant investment into border
(10:43):
security for not just keeping the border secure, because President
Trump he's actually in the first six months he made
it so that those borders are shut down like they're
completely secure. But now it's a matter of putting up
the infrastructure. That's the multiplier effect, and then giving the
resources to ICE and to customs and border patrol. They
(11:04):
really have a lot of work to do at the
commercial ports, but then also the interior enforcement. And so
I would say outside of the tax cuts, right like
no tax on over time, no tax on tips, locking
in taxes to avoid the largest tax increase in history,
border security was the most significant thing to come out
of that bill.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
All right, what's the worst that has to be addressed asap?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
H there was, of course I'm biased because it was
my bill, But the Rains Act. We made it through
the House with the Rains Act, which is the largest
regulatory reform effort in American history. Passing the Rains Act
saves US taxpayers two point five trillion dollars with a
(11:55):
t every single year. So when we talk about spending
and the national security threat that is our debt, I
would say that if we don't address regulatory reform, that
is going to continue to put us on that autopilot
spending spree that is going to be it's going to
(12:18):
ultimately take us down. And so I think that the
worst thing was we didn't make enough of a substantial savings.
We didn't cut enough of the deficit, and we need
to go back and we need to be absolutely ruthless
in getting our fiscal house in order.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Where is allowing us, you know, it's a pet issue
for me, total control of our own retirement, where the
government doesn't tell us what age we have to take
anything out. We can take it. It's our money, we
can take it whenever we want without penalty.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So there's a lot of talk right now, especially since
the Big Beautiful Bill included the MAGA Trump accounts for baby.
It's ignited a conversation about five twenty nine's about ross iras,
about iras in general four ah one kse. Really that
has stimulated a conversation in ways that I haven't seen previously.
(13:14):
So I think the talk of a second reconciliation package,
which is happening right now, will include additional reforms. But
I don't think it's just retirement right where people should
have the ability to make decisions about their own retirement
accounts and how they want to use that money and win.
But I think it should also extend to health savings accounts.
(13:35):
People should be able to take their health savings account
and use it in a way that they see fit.
I think, I really think that money for children that
goes towards their education should follow the child, not the school.
I really think that there is a conversation that has
started that is going to carry on through the next
(13:57):
couple of years that we're going to see serious reforms
to long standing programs that's going to really change the
way that we operate.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
All right, Well, I'm sixty cat, I'm sixty five. You
got five years to get it done.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
No pressure, right, I needed for the many people. Let
it be known, Preston has put me on the clock.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Come on, come on, Kats. In all seriousness, you're a delight.
We look forward to these visits and so appreciative that
you carve out time for us over here in the
Panhandle and Big Bend. And we wish you nothing but
the very best in the delivery of your little baby girl.
And thank you so much for the time, and we'll
talk soon.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I appreciate you so much. God bless take care by bye.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
US Congresswoman Kat Camick with me this morning in the
Morning Show with Preston Scott
Literally turning the page on the rundown. And here we
go into the third and final hour at least for
the today, for to day of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Show fifty four to nineteen. He's ose, I'm
Preston and this is us Congresswoman Cat Camic.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hi, Cat, good morning, how are you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm terrific. You have got to be about like really ready.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I am so pregnant. That's the only way to explain it.
And all of the ladies out there will know exactly
what I mean when I say I am so pregnant,
meaning you can't walk, you can't move, you waddle, you
kind of roll around like a roly poly is. It's
the phase.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And let's just throw into it one hundred degree temperatures,
heat indexes of one hundred and ten. Let's just make
it miserable.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh, I know. We really did the trifecta here of
insanely hot weather, very very uber pregnant, and managing to
trigger every single liberal in all at the same time.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Let's talk about that. The last time we visited, we
discussed the absurdity that you, your family, your staff had
been uh exposed to because you made some comments about
a pregnancy that you were not able to keep back
a year better a year or so ago. But last
(01:33):
week you introduced a piece of legislation. Let's tell let's
tell people about that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, you know. And and as we're having this conversation,
I look out my window and I see, you know,
a deputy right outside my window. That's that's our new normal, unfortunately,
because of the threat environment that we we now operate
in and live within. Uh you know. It was the
end of June we had a profile done on us
(02:03):
by the Wall Street Journal detailing an ectopic pregnancy that
I had experienced actually ended up being the rarest and
most dangerous type of ectopic pregnancy last year, which for
anybody who is not aware, it is not a viable pregnancy.
They've never been viable, and they typically end up rupturing
(02:24):
and causing internal bleeding to the point that it can
kill the mother. And so it's classified as a life
threatening situation. And for women who have ever experienced this,
which there's about one in twenty five women experience an
ectopic and of course one in four women will experience
a miscarriage in their lifetime. Both require treatment and the
(02:49):
thing that is really scary is we learned firsthand how
the misinformation and the politicization of the issue can really
scared doctors. And in my case, this was about a
month after Florida's heartbeat bill passed, And what ended up
happening was the pro abortion lobby had spent millions of
(03:11):
dollars running ads, even going so far as to geo fence,
meaning they literally would target hospitals and they would push
ads to people's cell phones that were in these these
areas saying that if they treated women who were undergoing
a miscarriage or experiencing an a topic pregnancy, that those
(03:34):
doctors or those nurses would lose their license and go
to jail. And so we experienced firsthand how that caused
a lot of fear and confusion when I showed up
at the er, you know, late one night, and I
ended up having to read the law to the doctors
in the room and making my case. And it's really
(03:57):
just crazy because it then turned into people saying, oh
my gosh, you had an abortion. By the way, not
a single professional medical association has ever classified treatment for
miscarriage or topics as an abortion. That's just a lie
that the left likes to perpetuate, and then they said
things like I voted for the bill, also highlighting that
(04:17):
there's a real problem with literacy and CYMC understanding in
this country. And it turned into something really nasty where
my family, my team, myself, my unborn child, you know,
we were all the subject of a lot of death
threats and still are. And again, this piece was intended
to highlight the real lack of access and resource and
(04:40):
the fact that it's difficult to have a conversation about
healthcare in this country and without it turning political and
low and behold the left prove my point.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Mainstream media never lets truth stand in the way of
a story, and sadly there are enough people that read, watch,
and follow that nonsense that we just have a bunch
of misinformed folks. And as a result. Congresswoman kat Camick
joins us this morning. She represents Florida's third congressional district
and has introduced the Truth in Women's Healthcare Act. What
(05:18):
does it do?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Kat? So, this really came out of our experience, but
also wanting to set the stage for what's to come
down the road, which is an effort to tackle real
challenges in our sick care system, because I think collectively
we can all agree we don't have healthcare in this country.
(05:39):
We have sick care, and it's pretty depressing that you
have health insurance companies making health care decisions for folks.
So we started out with this really setting the stage
for never allowing someone to go through what I went through.
You have heard these stories where, like I did, I
(06:02):
was sitting there, you know, eminently about to bleed out,
and people are saying, well, you know, we're not really
sure if we can, and I'm like, I just read
you the law, and they're like, yeah, but you know
that we keep getting all these advertisements and there's got
to be some truth to that. You know. Little did
they know or could we know at that time, but
the state of Florida actually had to sue these groups
(06:24):
in order for them to take it down. And when
you're living in this this era of just mass overload,
people say anything and it gets taken as truth. You know,
it's kind of like, oh, I saw it on Facebook,
so therefore it has to be true. I can't touch
how scary that is. And then you look at the
broader healthcare space and you know, people are absolutely completely
(06:49):
taken down rabbit holes and craziness. So the Truth in
Women's Healthcare Act was really just making it very clear
that there is a fundamental difference between an elective abortion
where someone says, you know, a woman says I just
don't want to have a kid, and it is a
viable pregnancy, and they terminate the life of their child.
(07:09):
That is something that I am fundamentally against, and I
know so many people who are right, and we're going
to continue that fight for all life because I believe
all life has value. When you have a situation of
a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy, those are not viable pregnancies.
They never have been, they never will be. And again,
(07:31):
if you're pro life, you're going to fight for the
life of the mother. And so really making clear that
the abortion lobby can no longer use women as ponds
in conflating what treatment is for those versus elective abortions.
That's what this resolution does, and it will set the
stage for us to start tackling this with insurance companies
(07:55):
and then getting resources to women in particularly rural and
underserved areas. The entire time I was going through this,
I kept saying to my husband, What happens to women
who don't have a doctor, What happens to the women
who don't have a car. You know, it was really
really scary for me, and I feel really lucky because
I've got a car and a husband and I could
(08:17):
pick up the phone and call my doctor. Not everybody's
in that situation, and so we need to make sure
that we're addressing the real gaps and shortfalls in our system.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kat If I may just we got about a minute
in this segment, but let me take it a step further.
What happens to the woman who's not a member of Congress,
who oh, by the way, knows what the law in
her state is.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I mean, that's what's so crazy. So we actually
started reaching out to the different medical associations, the American
Medical Association, the Association, the College of American College of
kind of Colleges, an ob obstetrics, like, we started reaching
out to them and saying, you guys need to be
pushing out accurate information and you can't let the politics
(09:05):
cloud where things are at based on the era that
we're living in. We have to be true to the
science here. And so this resolution, like I said, it
reaffirms that not a single professional accredited medical association believes
that abortion is what happens when you go through this right,
that's going to then translate into tackling the insurance companies
(09:27):
and how they build. And then it's going to also
create some legal precedent so that again the pro abortion
lobby can never use this as a weapon to hurt women. Ever, again, we.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Know the tax cuts had to get done. It got done.
What is the one thing that is most important in
the OBBB other than the tax cuts?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh? Oh man, there's so much.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
What's the one that's on top of the list, though,
outside the tax.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Cut, outside the text, I would have to say border security. Honestly,
there is no country without borders, right, you can't have
a sovereign nation if you don't have secure borders. And
the hell that we have lived under for the previous
(10:21):
four years of open border policies, the Americans that have
lost their lives, the families that have been broken, the
crimes that have been committed by people who never should
have been here in the first place. I think about
those angel families all the time. And the one big,
beautiful bill it gave the most significant investment into border
(10:43):
security for not just keeping the border secure, because President
Trump he's actually in the first six months he made
it so that those borders are shut down like they're
completely secure. But now it's a matter of putting up
the infrastructure. That's the multiplier effect, and then giving the
resources to ICE and to customs and border patrol. They
(11:04):
really have a lot of work to do at the
commercial ports, but then also the interior enforcement. And so
I would say outside of the tax cuts, right like
no tax on over time, no tax on tips, locking
in taxes to avoid the largest tax increase in history,
border security was the most significant thing to come out
of that bill.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
All right, what's the worst that has to be addressed asap?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
H there was, of course I'm biased because it was
my bill, But the Rains Act. We made it through
the House with the Rains Act, which is the largest
regulatory reform effort in American history. Passing the Rains Act
saves US taxpayers two point five trillion dollars with a
(11:55):
t every single year. So when we talk about spending
and the national security threat that is our debt, I
would say that if we don't address regulatory reform, that
is going to continue to put us on that autopilot
spending spree that is going to be it's going to
(12:18):
ultimately take us down. And so I think that the
worst thing was we didn't make enough of a substantial savings.
We didn't cut enough of the deficit, and we need
to go back and we need to be absolutely ruthless
in getting our fiscal house in order.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Where is allowing us, you know, it's a pet issue
for me, total control of our own retirement, where the
government doesn't tell us what age we have to take
anything out. We can take it. It's our money, we
can take it whenever we want without penalty.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So there's a lot of talk right now, especially since
the Big Beautiful Bill included the MAGA Trump accounts for baby.
It's ignited a conversation about five twenty nine's about ross iras,
about iras in general four ah one kse. Really that
has stimulated a conversation in ways that I haven't seen previously.
(13:14):
So I think the talk of a second reconciliation package,
which is happening right now, will include additional reforms. But
I don't think it's just retirement right where people should
have the ability to make decisions about their own retirement
accounts and how they want to use that money and win.
But I think it should also extend to health savings accounts.
(13:35):
People should be able to take their health savings account
and use it in a way that they see fit.
I think, I really think that money for children that
goes towards their education should follow the child, not the school.
I really think that there is a conversation that has
started that is going to carry on through the next
(13:57):
couple of years that we're going to see serious reforms
to long standing programs that's going to really change the
way that we operate.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
All right, Well, I'm sixty cat, I'm sixty five. You
got five years to get it done.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
No pressure, right, I needed for the many people. Let
it be known, Preston has put me on the clock.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Come on, come on, Kats. In all seriousness, you're a delight.
We look forward to these visits and so appreciative that
you carve out time for us over here in the
Panhandle and Big Bend. And we wish you nothing but
the very best in the delivery of your little baby girl.
And thank you so much for the time, and we'll
talk soon.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I appreciate you so much. God bless take care by bye.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
US Congresswoman Kat Camick with me this morning in the
Morning Show with Preston Scott
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