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The street address of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine is a suite in a glossy office building tinted to reflect its surroundings. The building sits on the corner of South Taylor Street and Fifth Avenue in downtown Amarillo, mirroring the U.S. courthouse directly across the intersection that contains the chambers of federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. The AHM, which incorporated as a nonprofit organization in Texas last August, with a registered agent in Amarillo, is the lead plaintiff in a civil lawsuit moving through Kacsmaryk’s court that could outlaw the nation’s most common method of abortion, even in states whose legislatures have kept the procedure legal.The complaint, filed in November, alleges that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not follow proper procedure when it approved mifepristone—the first…

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