A Texas federal judge late Tuesday declined to dismiss a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration seeking to sharply restrict the abortion pill mifepristone, instead transferring the case to Missouri and keeping the effort alive.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that Idaho, Missouri and Kansas — which were not the original plaintiffs — have no ties to Amarillo, Texas, where the original lawsuit was filed.

But instead of dismissing the case outright, Kacsmaryk transferred it to the Eastern District of Missouri “in the interest of justice.”

The red states did not file their own lawsuit but were allowed by Kacsmaryk to intervene and file a complaint in the case that was originally brought in 2022 by a group of anti-abortion activists and doctors.

Kacsmaryk wrote that if

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