Federal judge at center of FDA abortion drug case has history with conservative causes

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Amarillo, Texas. (Credit: U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas)

When anti-abortion groups wanted to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of an abortion-inducing drug, they didn’t file the lawsuit in Maryland, where the FDA is headquartered, or in any state where the pill is still legally prescribed.

They filed it in Amarillo, a Texas city that didn’t have an abortion clinic even before the state all but banned the procedure.