Florida’s top health official just dropped the hammer on a nurse who crossed an unthinkable line. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s Surgeon General, has revoked the nursing license of Lexie Lawler after she went viral for wishing gruesome childbirth injuries on White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Lawler, who worked as a labor and delivery nurse, didn’t just post an offensive rant—she did so while invoking her professional role in healthcare. That crossed an ethical red line Florida officials say cannot be ignored.
“Effective today, Lexie Lawler is no longer allowed to practice nursing in Florida,” declared State Attorney General James Uthmeier in a post on X. “Making statements that wish pain and suffering on anyone, when those statements are directly related to one’s practice, is an ethical red line we should not cross.”
Lawler’s viral TikTok video made headlines after it was picked up by Libs of TikTok. In it, she said, “As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth degree tear,” before going even further with graphic, profane language that stunned viewers across the country.
🚨 BREAKING: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo JUST REVOKED the nursing license of labor and delivery nurse Lexie Lawler for saying about Karoline Leavitt’s coming child — “I hope you f*cking rip from bow to stern and never sh*t normally again, you c*nt.”
NOT IN FLORIDA! 🔥… pic.twitter.com/mXCCURc9e3
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 28, 2026
Uthmeier didn’t mince words. “Women shouldn’t have to worry about a politically driven nurse who wishes them pain and suffering being in the delivery room during childbirth. It’s evil,” he told Fox News Digital. “The Florida Board of Nursing must take action to keep this person away from patients permanently.”
Lawler’s employer, Baptist Health, swiftly fired her after the video exploded online. “The comments made in a social media video by a nurse at one of our facilities do not reflect our values,” the hospital said in a statement. “The individual is no longer employed by our health system.”
But Uthmeier wasn’t satisfied with just a pink slip. “Being fired isn’t good enough,” he wrote Tuesday. “Any healthcare worker who fails to uphold his or her obligation to provide adequate, safe healthcare should not be licensed in Florida. No excuses!”
Florida didn’t hesitate. By Wednesday, Lawler’s license was officially revoked—sending a loud message: healthcare workers who use their position to push hate or advocate harm won’t find protection under the state’s watch.
After wishing harm on Karoline Leavitt during childbirth, disgraced Florida nurse Lexie Lawler took to social media, claiming that losing her job and nursing license was “government coerced retaliation for saying a thing.” She added that she doesn’t “believe anyone should lose… https://t.co/PVNhhUvekY pic.twitter.com/vWiiJUi7h3
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) January 28, 2026
A fourth-degree tear, the injury Lawler grotesquely wished on Leavitt, is no joke. It involves lacerations extending through the perineum and rectum, often requiring surgical repair and months of recovery. Lawler’s words weren’t just cruel—they were medically serious, and aimed at a public official simply because of politics.
With Ladapo and Uthmeier leading the charge, Florida drew a clear line: if you weaponize your medical position to push political hatred, you’re done.
