US judge in abortion pill case a former conservative activist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Before assuming his life-long post as a federal judge, Kacsmaryk was a lawyer for the First Liberty Institute, a Texas-based group that focused on cases surrounding religious freedom.
51% : The 45-year-old Kacsmaryk has been in the spotlight ever since a coalition of anti-abortion activists sued the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seeking to overturn the federal agency's approval of mifepristone over 20 years ago.
45% : The judge is "the latest target of judicial intimidation" whose "real offense is his background litigating religious liberty cases," said Carrie Severino, who leads the conservative legal group Judicial Crisis Network.
42% : While at First Liberty Institute, Kacsmaryk openly opposed the Supreme Court's landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage as well as transgender people's choice to use bathrooms of their gender identity.
36% : Those included representing bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for same-sex couples because it violated their Christian beliefs, and supporting a public high school coach who was fired after praying on the field with students.

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