Texasβs Abortion Pill Bounty Law Comes for Kristan Hawkins
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Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins pushed hard for Texasβ House Bill 7, a βbounty hunter lawβ that allows total strangers to sue anyone who mails or hands over abortion pills. Then, she went to Texas and went undercover, reportedly calling herself βWanda,β to order abortion pills. She was trying to prove how easy it is to procure the pills despite Texasβ ban. Now a Texas mother using the pseudonym Maria Puerto is suing Hawkins and three Students for Life staffers under that same law. Talk about hoisted by your own petard.
Imani Gandy breaks down HB 7, whether Maria Puerto can actually win, and why Hawkinsβ best defense might be admitting the whole thing was a stunt.
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