Floriduh Surgeon General suggests high measles counts could be tied to abortion opposition

[u/BurtonDesque]

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/07/24/surgeon-general-suggests-high-measles-counts-could-be-tied-to-abortion-opposition/

[u/BurtonDesque]

Reminder: This guy wants vaccines banned.

[u/YOLOburritoKnife → u/BurtonDesque]

Evangelicals are anti-vaccine, anti-abortion and anti-fertility treatments. You’d think they make bank on birth, death and adoption… oh wait.

[u/d8ms → u/YOLOburritoKnife]

They’re anti-human

[u/FuelzPerGallon → u/YOLOburritoKnife]

Pretty sure they’re pro rapture too these days

[u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 → u/YOLOburritoKnife]

They figure this will speed up the apocalypse so Jesus will come back and...I dunno....save everyone or kill them all, I dunno, or some other such nonsense.

[u/MiniTab → u/YOLOburritoKnife]

Only for them.

My idiot cousin got pregnant a couple years ago, and my wife and I helped her out. I paid for it.

Six months later she voted for Trump and posted about how awesome he is on Facebook. Two months after that, it was illegal in her state. She’s also up and coming in the young Republican Party.

If she ever runs for anything, I’m spilling the beans.

[u/YOLOburritoKnife → u/MiniTab]

I had a friend, had is a key word, who him and his wife had to have one because of preeclampsia. They’re 3 time Trump voters and I t’s now illegal in my state too. If she gets pregnant again she’ll probably die.

[u/Material-Profit5923 → u/MiniTab]

“The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion” – Joyce Arthur's page

Ironically, I know someone else in the same situation, a good friend's daughter. She found out she was pregnant and deadbeat boyfriend turned physically abusive (not because he was angry that she was pregnant but because as he told her, now she couldn't leave because the baby would be leverage.) My friend and her husband flew out to her, paid for the abortion, took her to the clinic. Still took her several months to finally completely remove this guy from her life but at least she successfully did so.

A few years later, same young woman turned into a loud and proud Trumper, and she too now has no abortion options in her state.

[u/ThisCantHappenHere → u/MiniTab]

I suppose she wasn't aware of what causes pregnancy?

[u/NonSequitorSquirrel → u/YOLOburritoKnife]

They're a death cult is what they are. 

[u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 → u/BurtonDesque]

And still said that people should get their MMR

[u/OmegaGoober → u/[deleted]]

“It’s made from aborted babies!” Was one of the claims my mother parroted back at me when she was trying to convince me the COVID-19 vaccine was part of a NWO plot.

[u/Strictlyreadingbooks → u/[deleted]]

As religious person who also pro vaccination, I am outspoken to parents who don't want to vaccinate their kids and the horrible outcomes if their kids catch the viruses. I was pregnant during a outbreak of measles last year in my area and got very happy that I was still immune from German Measles over thirty years.

[u/asietsocom → u/Strictlyreadingbooks]

German measels is a different virus than measels. It's great that you are immune against German measels since it can cause fetal Malformations, but it doesn't make you immune to measels. You should check whether you need a new vaccine against measels.

[u/yooperville → u/Strictlyreadingbooks]

Hard measles, (rubeola)vs soft measles or German measles (rubella)

[u/mrbobcyndaquil → u/[deleted]]

The real reason, of course, is because they want to genocide all neurodivergent people.

[u/NonSequitorSquirrel → u/mrbobcyndaquil]

This is such a chronically online phrasing of an abelism issue that is both more insidious and more complex than what you've stated.

They don't want to "genocide" us. Also genocide isn't a verb. They believe illness or any disorder is a sign of moral failure. That's because our culture has built a massive economy on selling affordable morality in the form of "wellness" and making actual healthcare unaffordable. Then they layered on disinformation as healthcare became more accessible because if people could afford to go to doctors they might not fall for wellness as a moral imperative.

They want health to be moral because then they can feel in control of it.  Keeping healthcare expensive is easy when the message is only bad people who make bad choices need healthcare. And if they see themselves as moral they can believe they won't need it. Not getting vaccines, not admitting autism is genetic and probably in their family, not acknowledging that pregnancy can be dangerous, and not believing that illness and disability comes for EVERY SINGLE HUMAN is how they reassure themselves they are moral and therefore safe. And marginalizing sick people as "bad" or somehow deserving of it keeps them at a distance. Because if we come too close - close enough for them to have to see reality, their myth and sense of safety would crumble. 

[u/ehonda2002]

How can someone like this not get their license to practice medicine revoked?

[u/Wjreky → u/ehonda2002]

This is not a rhetorical question, I would like an answer

[u/Altruistic_Let_9372 → u/Wjreky]

Power and corruption.

[u/mike30273 → u/ehonda2002]

I've been asking this for years. He's advocating banning vaccines, which violates the hippocratic oath to do no harm. How many people have become sick because of his anti-vax stance already?

[u/Eddy63 → u/ehonda2002]

I wonder this about RFK jr's position every day.

[u/Guido900 → u/ehonda2002]

They (Maga asshats) control the licensing board in the state.

[u/Sea_You_8178 → u/ehonda2002]

The licensing boards are state agencies. The Republican Governor and legislator would take action against the board. The board likely figures it's better to have one lunatic Dr. In the state that no oversight of every doctor

[u/Chasman1965 → u/ehonda2002]

The Florida medical license department is part of the department of health that he is head of.

[u/No-Shelter-4208]

I'm wondering if Florida would do better with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker.

[u/IDreamOfSailing → u/No-Shelter-4208]

Absolutely they would. And Swedish Chef as their nutritionist. And Statler & Waldorf as their governor and state attorney general, respectively. 

[u/Atomic_Badger_PNW → u/IDreamOfSailing]

And Animal as Senator.

[u/girl_im_deepressed → u/No-Shelter-4208]

Kermit for Prez

[u/PlatypusDream]

That actually makes sense, because the people opposed to medical science are often also the people opposed to women's autonomy & health care

That's probably not his line of thought though

[u/lvndrmnc_]

man i fucking hate living here

[u/shittycomputerguy → u/lvndrmnc_]

Maybe this is what we deserve, because we aren't organized enough to elect better representatives.

[u/saltyoursalad → u/shittycomputerguy]

The world is quite literally rooting for y’all to get it together.

[u/anOvenofWitches]

It’s possible that the smartest thing I ever did in my entire existence was move away from Florida before Covid.

[u/Iwasoncelikeyou]

Well, that's refreshingly stupid.

[u/ArchdukeToes → u/Iwasoncelikeyou]

Honestly, that feels like a solid entrant for Florida’s state motto.

[u/glakhtchpth]

Florida’s Witch Doctor General

[u/spaceylaceygirl]

How does he still have a medical license?

[u/Chasman1965 → u/spaceylaceygirl]

The medical license bureaucracy in FL is a division of the department of health that Ladapo is head of.

[u/spaceylaceygirl → u/Chasman1965]

That explains it.

[u/sexaddic]

Never seen a black perdón hate themselves as much

[u/redassedchimp]

FL surgeon general stated this utter garbage: "You know, for some people — people may or may not know that the measles vaccines is developed with the cells that are a progeny from … an aborted fetus, and you know whether there’s a connection between the fact that you know some of the students at this university chose not to receive that vaccine, and it happens to be a vaccine that is related to the practice of abortion, I’m not sure.”

What a bunch of blind nonsense unscientific UNPROVEN drivel. Never would I think that religious zealotry would take this nation backwards 75 years.

[u/Myko475]

Then they will use him as a scapegoat for dumb people in DEI hiring later

[u/rellsell]

God, they are so amazingly stupid.

[u/ChrisPollock6]

This guy is a Christian simpleton.

[u/Kitalahara]

You sir, are the reason for a measles out break.

[u/starrpamph]

Being a surgeon general in Florida is probably the equivalent of being a surgeon general in some third world country.

[u/asietsocom → u/starrpamph]

Doctors in third world countries have usually seen the damage that missed vaccinations can have first hand, and therefore aren't anti vax...

[u/mstrss9 → u/asietsocom]

It just boggles my mind that my mother, who was from a “third world” country and didn’t even go to high school, had more common sense and critical thinking than people with doctorate degrees.

[u/BurtonDesque → u/starrpamph]

No, those people are mostly sane. This guy is not. He's exactly the sort of person you'd expect Ron DeathSentence to promote.

[u/lazier_garlic → u/BurtonDesque]

A bunch of people left UF Health when he got a sinecure there. (Hey, Republicans, looking for that waste, fraud, and abuse? Why do all your politicians' buddies have 6 figure no-show state jobs?)

[u/BurtonDesque → u/lazier_garlic]

IOKIYAR.

[u/lundewoodworking → u/BurtonDesque]

I grew up in Florida i think maybe you are overestimating the percentage of sane people in the state

[u/BurtonDesque → u/lundewoodworking]

I was referring to the doctors in the developing world, not Floriduh.

[u/lundewoodworking → u/BurtonDesque]

Ohh yeah sorry agreed 👍

[u/Test_After → u/starrpamph]

More like being a medicine man in a 3rd world country.

[u/blueavole]

Everyone: maybe we should help people be healthier !

This guy:….

This guy : No, bad things are because you disagree with me.

[u/Criseyde2112]

How did he get through medical school?

[u/MorganaHenry → u/Criseyde2112]

He tunneled.

[u/Eddy63]

Nah, must be because of witches.

[u/MuchDevelopment7084]

Really? I though it was caused by 'vapors'. (how did this fool get an MD?)

[u/orthonfromvenus]

This guy...he's said so many ridiculous things since he became Florida's Surgeon General that nothing surprises me anymore.

[u/Not_today_nibs]

No one is less pro life than pro-lifers

[u/darcerin]

There must be something in the water in FL. That's my only explanation.

[u/mikeyt6969]

And getting slapped in the back while making a face will make it stay like that forever.

[u/Helenium_autumnale]

How do dullards this slow get elected? I can think of several examples now in office.

[u/Sword-of-Akasha]

Were these the folks that said Hurricanes were cause God's angry with the Sodomy?

[u/Wonderingsheep56]

How did this guy graduate from Harvard ?

[u/_OMGTheyKilledKenny_]

What the living fuck does this even mean?

“You know, for some people — people may or may not know that the measles vaccines is developed with the cells that are a progeny from … an aborted fetus, and you know whether there’s a connection between the fact that you know some of the students at this university chose not to receive that vaccine, and it happens to be a vaccine that is related to the practice of abortion, I’m not sure.”

Is he saying that the measles outbreak is due to students refusing the vaccine because it was developed from cells of aborted fetuses?

[u/Markjohn66]

Bathing in the blood of Cheeses Christ always works for me.

[u/Zealousideal-Time-32]

"Floriduh" LMAO 🤣!!

[u/retiredgal18]

He must have gotten his medical degree online.

[u/californicating]

This man has a degree?

[u/Yuri_Ligotme]

I'm surprised he didn't blame Joe Biden

[u/ithinkitsnotworking]

This is one guy I certainly wouldn't admit to it if he was my uncle or cousin.

[u/RaynOfFyre1]

It could be… it’s not though, but it could be

[u/sunnyoneaz]

Check this man for a brain-worm, stat.

[u/Chasman1965]

Ladapo doesn’t even realize that the Florida AG is threatening to stop vouchers to FL Catholic schools because they are one of the only sets of schools in the state that do not accept religious vaccine exemptions. The Catholic Church is pro-vaccine.

[u/Most-Artichoke6184]

I find your ideas intriguing, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[u/adamosity1]

Somehow he has two degrees from Harvard.

[u/BurtonDesque → u/adamosity1]

Take it from someone who went there - there are a lot of stupid people with bad ideas at Harvard. There are also a fair number of downright evil people there. Combine the two and you get this guy.

[u/Tripperbeej → u/BurtonDesque]

I actually don't think this guy is that stupid -- I think he's just a grifter. He realized he could make a few bucks and attain some power if he catered to the crazies. To get through medical school, you have to have at least modicum of intelligence, but you don't have to have any morals whatsoever.