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Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, lobbied for Texas’s abortion pill bounty law, and now she’s getting sued under it for ordering abortion pills.

Back in March, according to the lawsuit, Hawkins and three of her staffers stood outside Space Center Houston and ordered abortion pills on their phones. None of them were pregnant. It was a stunt to prove the pills are too easy to get. Mother Jones was there watching, because they were following her for a documentary. Then came the post: “Guess what we are doing? Ordering abortion pills undercover? Yep. Stay tuned.”

Mission Control talked Apollo 11 onto the moon from Houston, and Kristan went there to prove a Texan can get abortion pills with a few taps on a phone. Giant leap.

Here’s the law she pushed. HB 7 lets almost anyone sue anyone who mails, delivers or provides abortion pills in Texas, or even intends to. Minimum damages, $100,000. You don’t need to be harmed or know a single person involved.

There’s one exemption, for a woman who orders pills and takes them to end her own pregnancy. Kristan doesn’t get that one. The plaintiff’s lawyer: “The one thing that we can be sure of is that people who are categorically opposed to abortion didn’t take the pills themselves.”

So who’s suing? A 26-year-old Texas mom of two going by Maria Puerto. She says the state’s bans forced her to carry both pregnancies, and the first one cost her college and her job. “I lost everything, my job, my career. Everything.”

She’s asking for $459,782, the average cost of raising two kids to 18 in Texas. She keeps $10,000. The rest goes to Jane’s Due Process, which helps young Texans get abortion and birth control.

This movement has spent four years sending women the bill. Somebody finally mailed it back.

Students for Life’s official response? They called the lawsuit a “backhanded compliment.” Your president is facing almost half a million dollars in damages, and you’re reading it like a Yelp review.

Kristan called it “frivolous” and a “publicity stunt.” My dude, you ordered abortion pills in front of a documentary crew, and your team posted “stay tuned.” And you backed a law that lets any random stranger sue for $100,000. Frivolous is the whole design.

Then she went on X, said she feels “so badly for this child who will forever have it in writing,” and added, “It’s child abuse. Texas CPS should be called on this mother asap.”

What the actual feck. The pro-life pitch has always been have the baby, we’ll take care of you. She had the baby. Twice. And the second she said it cost her everything, Kristan’s plan was to call the agency that takes kids away.

So why should you care if you don’t live in Texas? Because Texas is the test kitchen. The other lawsuits under this law go after a California doctor and an abortion access group, people whose crime is helping women. That’s who this law was built to hunt. The only reason this case is funny is that, for once, it bit the people who built it.

Kristan, the post said stay tuned. Oh, we will.

Sources:

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/13/texas-abortion-pill-ban-lawsuit-hb-7/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/texas-woman-sues-kristan-hawkins-over-abortion-pill-stunt/

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