About the editor: U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s attempt to restrict the distribution of mifepristone by suspending U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval isn’t just an assault on abortion rights. It is also perhaps the most extreme example of judicial abuse since Bush v. Gor in 2000.

If a single federal judge can overturn the FDA’s years of scientific study of a drug for purely political and religious reasons, what’s to stop another extremist judge from setting, say, the federal funds rate? Will a judge, inspired by his beliefs, rule that HIV drugs are unsafe?

It is high time to end the federal courts and this insane trend of interest groups looking for politically sympathetic judges who believe they can impose their opinions across the country. Will surely fail.

Thomas McGrath, Los Angeles.

About the publisher: So where does a judge’s power end when life-saving drugs can be made illegal by an individual? Why do we even have an FDA if judges without scientific expertise can undo the work of the FDA’s scientists?

What will a judge decide now? Will the next judge use his religious beliefs to make blood transfusions illegal? Will the next judge’s religious beliefs, based on pseudoscience, oppose heart transplants?

When did all United States citizens decide to leave our access to medical care to the decision of a single judge? I certainly don’t remember any of that in my lectures on government.

Kathryn PisaroGranada Hills..

About the publisher: How ironic. On a day when 2.6 billion Christians celebrate life, Easter Sunday, The Times publishes an editorial promoting ending life through medical abortion.

While the word “safe” or similar form is used throughout the editorial, the pregnant mother’s womb may not be as safe for the life of some premature babies.

Wesley Stalnaker, Santa Clarita.

About the publisher: Let’s be clear: blocking access to health care will not end abortions. Hangers, illegal abortion providers with varying levels of knowledge, methods and experience, and potentially lethal pills will take their place.

Women who want or need an abortion will find a way, often at the cost of their health or even their lives.

Alison M. Grimes, Yorba Linda..

About the editor: Given that women are being systematically disenfranchised and in light of a Texas federal judge’s ruling, I am calling for Viagra and Cialis to be taken off the market as well.

Either that or vasectomies should be mandatory after a man fathers two children.

Cheryl Little, Pasadena