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Kyle Diamantas, who was elevated to FDA acting commissioner earlier this week, is telling anti-abortion groups he asked to be taken off a case defending Planned Parenthood due to moral objections.
FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Kyle Diamantas prepares for an interview with POLITICO and Axel Springer in a conference room in the Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building in College Park, Maryland, on Dec. 16, 2025. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
The new acting head of the Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to reassure abortion opponents that he is on their side after court records surfaced listing him as an outside counsel for a Planned Parenthood Florida chapter for at least three years beginning in 2014.
Within hours of his appointment on Tuesday to temporarily lead the agency after the resignation of former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, Kyle Diamantas was on the phone telling several anti-abortion leaders that he is morally opposed to the procedure.
