Anti-Abortion Leader Ordered Abortion Pills As A Stunt, Sued Under Her Own Texas Bounty Law

Anti-Abortion Leader Ordered Abortion Pills As A Stunt, Sued Under Her Own Texas Bounty Law

Published: October 14, 2026

Duration: 3:00

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 t...