Judge Who Banned Abortion Pill Hid Anti-Trans Christian Extremism from Senate
Matthew Kacsmaryk had his name removed from his own Texas Law Review article in a move former editor calls “unprecedented”
Matthew Kacsmaryk is the judge trying to ban medical abortion across the United States
He’s been a federal judge in Texas since Donald Trump appointed him in 2019. You probably don’t know his name, but I bet you know about the recent case in which he ruled that the FDA acted wrongly 23 years ago when they approved an abortion pill called mifepristone, now the safest, most common method of terminating pregnancy in the U.S.
Kaczmarek's ruling is on hold for now, but if higher courts validate it, medical abortion will end everywhere, even in states where abortion is still legal. Many court watchers (and judges) have stated or implied that Kacsmaryk’s ruling is legally absurd, relying as it does on cherry-picked data and ignoring overwhelming evidence that mifepristone is safe and effective. Many say Kaczmaryk is substituting his lifetime of Christian-nationalist advocacy for the views of the FDA’s medical experts and the will of the people.
