President of the national anti-abortion organization Students for Life of America, Kristan Hawkins, said she would consider prosecuting women who have abortions “later when laws and culture change."
President of the national anti-abortion organization Students for Life of America, Kristan Hawkins, said she would consider prosecuting women who have abortions “later when laws and culture change” on her podcast on February 20, 2025. We confronted her about her pro-criminalization stance at a Students for Life of American gala in Washington, DC.
In the video, Hawkins attempts to sidestep her pro-criminalization stance and simply state she can’t wait to defund Planned Parenthood.
In the first year Roe fell alone, 210 women faced criminal charges related to reproductive care including abortion, pregnancy, or pregnancy loss. (1) This is reality, and unfortunately it has only gotten worse for people with capacity for pregnancy.
That is why it is callous, and devious, that Kristan Hawkins admitted that herself and the pro-life movement would contemplate seeing women prosecuted for having abortions after laws and culture change. And she revealed this only in the middle of an hour-long podcast that doesn’t reach the majority of her audience. It’s cowardly.
In fact, this flew so far under the radar that their own Spokesperson and Social Media Coordinator, Lydia Taylor Davis, told us that Hawkins “says the opposite.” Davis proceeded to claim she is a feminist despite not know her own boss admitted she may be in favor of throwing women who have abortions in jail eventually. Make no mistake: Kristan is hellbent on making sure culture changes in her favor. We won’t let that happen.
No one should be prosecuted for abortion. Not now, not ever. We will continue to push back on any criminalization of pregnancy outcomes.
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