In March, two Mother Jones videographers and I stood outside the Space Center Houston and watched Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, order abortion pills online.

We were shadowing Hawkins through Texas for a profile, documentary, and radio story about her role overseeing one of the anti-abortion movement’s most influential organizations, which now claims 1,700 chapters nationwide.

On that spring day, we watched as Hawkins and a Students for Life spokesperson, Lydia Taylor Davis, attempted to show just how easy it was to obtain abortion pills in Texas, despite its stringent laws, in the hopes that state and federal officials would do more to stop the pills.

Now, Hawkins has been sued over the stunt, under a 2025 state law she and her team publicly lobbied for that was meant to target abortion providers and advocates.

On Tuesday, a 26-year-old Texas woman who says she was forced to carry two pregnancies to term because of the state’s abortion bans sued Hawkins, Davis, and two other Students for Life staffers in state court. The woman, who uses the pseudonym Maria Puerto, claims that the stunt Hawkins staged in the Houston parking lot not only broke the law, but “mocks” Texans like her who have suffered life-altering harms from the state’s draconian laws, which ban abortion under virtually all circumstances. The lawsuit cites Mother Jones’ reporting, along with Students for Life’s social media posts about the........

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