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| For Texas Judge in Abortion Case, a Life Shaped by Conservative Causes | For Texas Judge in Abortion Case, a Life Shaped by Conservative Causes |
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| Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk and his wife, Shelly Kacsmaryk, were devastated when their first child, a girl they named Tyndale, was stillborn. | Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk and his wife, Shelly Kacsmaryk, were devastated when their first child, a girl they named Tyndale, was stillborn. |
| It was 2006 and a searing, formative experience for Judge Kacsmaryk, then a lawyer at the prominent Texas firm Baker Botts. He became involved in and later served on the board of a Texas Christian organization that provides housing and adoption services to women with unplanned pregnancies as an alternative to abortion. | It was 2006 and a searing, formative experience for Judge Kacsmaryk, then a lawyer at the prominent Texas firm Baker Botts. He became involved in and later served on the board of a Texas Christian organization that provides housing and adoption services to women with unplanned pregnancies as an alternative to abortion. |
| “Matthew and Shelly’s first child was stillborn, and I think that contributed to his interest in wanting to support women in all kinds of ways, but most especially when they are pregnant,” said Sherri Statler, the president and chief executive of the group, Christian Homes & Family Services in Abilene. “They often feel pressured into getting an abortion until they find out there is an organization that will support them through their pregnancy.” | “Matthew and Shelly’s first child was stillborn, and I think that contributed to his interest in wanting to support women in all kinds of ways, but most especially when they are pregnant,” said Sherri Statler, the president and chief executive of the group, Christian Homes & Family Services in Abilene. “They often feel pressured into getting an abortion until they find out there is an organization that will support them through their pregnancy.” |
| Judge Kacsmaryk, now a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, issued a preliminary ruling on Friday evening invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a widely available abortion drug in one of the most-watched court cases since the Supreme Court overturned the right to an abortion. A coalition of anti-abortion groups and doctors have sued the Food and Drug Administration, seeking to void the agency’s approval of the drug mifepristone. | Judge Kacsmaryk, now a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, issued a preliminary ruling on Friday evening invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a widely available abortion drug in one of the most-watched court cases since the Supreme Court overturned the right to an abortion. A coalition of anti-abortion groups and doctors have sued the Food and Drug Administration, seeking to void the agency’s approval of the drug mifepristone. |