Is the Pro-Life Movement Gaining Ground With Gen Z? | 2.22.26

Summary

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Morning Wire: Is the Pro-Life Movement Gaining Ground With Gen Z?

Podcast: Morning Wire
Hosts: John Bickley & Georgia Howe
Guest: Kristen Hawkins (President, Students for Life Action)
Release Date: February 22, 2026
Episode Focus: Exploring trends among Gen Z on abortion, campus activism, and the current state of the pro-life movement.

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Episode Overview

This episode of Morning Wire centers on whether the pro-life movement is gaining traction with Gen Z, focusing particularly on college campuses—"ground zero" in the modern abortion debate. Kristen Hawkins, the president of Students for Life Action, joins John Bickley and Georgia Howe for an in-depth discussion. Key topics include generational shifts in attitudes, successes and challenges in pro-life activism, and targeted strategies for persuading young women.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Shifting Generational Attitudes (03:35–06:58)

• Gen Z vs. Millennials:

  • Hawkins notes marked differences between Gen Y (millennials) and Gen Z, emphasizing Gen Z’s preference for direct debate and conversation.
  • [Quote | 07:30]: “Gen Y... it was harder to have a conversation about abortion. Don't talk about that... Gen Z is much more direct. They don't mind the direct conversation, which is why videos of me on campuses go viral now.” – Kristen Hawkins

• Shifts in Gender Perspectives:

  • Polls indicate young men—particularly conservatives—now value having children and family more highly, seeing family as a marker of success.
  • Young women, particularly liberals, rate "having children" lower; social media influence is least valued across groups.

• Cultural Trends:

  • Hawkins observes a “pendulum swing” among young women, some moving right, but also a more vocal and extreme opposition among others.
  • She cautions pro-lifers against dismissing or mocking highly vocal pro-choice women, emphasizing their equal value.

2. Trends in Campus Engagement and Strategy (06:58–10:45)

• Evolution on Campuses:

  • Hawkins founded Students for Life in 2006; abortion conversations have evolved—today’s students expect candor and confrontation.
  • The post-Roe landscape has energized both sides, but also forced those previously neutral (the "mushy middle") to choose sides.

• Data-Driven Insights:

  • Recent Polling: "Nearly 7 in 10 Gen Z and Gen Y voters want to see restrictions on abortion."
  • “Nine in ten say that common sense safety standards on chemical abortion pills should be in place...” – Kristen Hawkins (10:11)

• Substantial Progress and Setbacks:

  • Roe has been overturned, Planned Parenthood funding was restricted for a year, and abortion is heavily regulated or banned in entire regions.
  • However, illegal chemical abortion pills flood into pro-life states due to lack of federal enforcement.

3. Messaging, Religion, and Female Voters (10:45–20:26)

• Appealing to Values & Faith:

  • Recent months have seen a “religious revival” on campuses, but Gen Z remains the least "churched" demographic ever—under 50% self-identify as Christian.
  • Hawkins stresses her message is about inherent human value, needing to overcome secular assumptions.

• Engagement with Liberal, Urban Women:

  • The “cosmopolitan coastal young woman”—fashionable, secular, pro-choice—is Hawkins’ target audience for persuasion.
  • Memorable Harvard Moment (16:11–17:43): She describes a campus visit where two skeptical students, after heated discussion, chased her to the bathroom to keep talking—showing even fierce opponents may engage with direct, nuanced arguments.

  Quote | 16:14: “I can see the little animated light bulbs going off... Even if they really hate me... they have a hard time hating what I'm saying.” – Kristen Hawkins

• Framing and Policy Solutions:

  • Hawkins argues true empowerment means supporting women to both pursue careers/education and have children, advocating for paid family leave and expanded child tax credits.
  • She criticizes both Democratic opposition to pro-family bills and attacks from some in the conservative movement against women leaders.

• Internal Movement Dynamics:

  • There is tension inside the pro-life/conservative movement, with some demanding more male leadership and deriding women leaders as “raging feminists.”
  • Passionate Response | 19:44:
    “You can’t fight Moloch, Satan, with women. I was like, shut the hell up. You wear loafers and you’re in a freaking podcast room. I’m, like, out on the ground getting, like, sunburnt.” – Kristen Hawkins

4. The Centrality of Female Voters (18:56–20:26)

• Electoral Stakes:

  • Hawkins and Howe agree: Winning over young women is the linchpin for shifting election outcomes, as abortion motivates turnout and loyalty more than economic issues.

  Quote | 18:56: “That is the linchpin issue that will flip a female voter... If you can figure out how to massage your message for that group, that’s your key to the whole thing.” – Georgia Howe

• Appeal for Movement Unity:

  • Hawkins urges allies to view even hostile, pro-choice women as members of their communities and worthy of respect and outreach.

5. Policy Priorities: Chemical Abortion Pills (21:01–24:52)

• Chemical Abortion Pills as Top Focus:

  • The proliferation of mail-order abortion pills (mifepristone and misoprostol) is now the main challenge; these drugs are easily accessible and difficult to regulate.

  Quote | 21:09: “The leading cause of infant death in our country today are chemical abortions. Chemical abortions are abortions that are happening in homes, in dormitories.” – Kristen Hawkins

• Environmental Concerns:

  • Citing Students for Life research, Hawkins claims metabolites from abortion pills are found in water supplies, warning of health consequences and regulation lapses.

• Legislative Pushes:

  • Students for Life is advocating for state-level Anti Chemical Abortion Trafficking Acts, empowering attorneys general and families to act against pill distribution.
  • There's frustration at both parties’ lack of action; existing federal laws (like the Comstock Act) are not enforced.
  • Emergency room statistics and environmental impacts are used to lobby for tighter restrictions.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On generational contrasts in value systems:
  “For young men who voted for President Trump, number one marker of success was having children... For women who voted for Kamala Harris, [having kids] was 12 out of 13. The only thing that beat out having kids was social media influencer was 13 for all four demographics.” – Kristen Hawkins (04:41–05:14)

• On the need for direct conversation:
  “The Gen Zs value that directness. But I do think we’ve seen substantial success in the broader pro life movement reversing Roe.” – Kristen Hawkins (08:01–08:06)

• On the necessity of personal engagement:
  “If we don’t save her, if we can’t convince her that she has value and worth and dignity, it’s almost impossible to convince her that the temporarily inconvenient child in her womb...also has value.” – Kristen Hawkins (20:26–20:40)

• Humorous pushback against internal critics:
  “Shut the hell up. You wear loafers and you’re in a freaking podcast room. I’m, like, out on the ground getting, like, sunburnt on campuses and getting spit at and yelled at and death threats.” – Kristen Hawkins (19:44–20:13)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 03:35–06:58 – Trends in Gen Z and gender split on abortion
• 07:27–10:45 – Cultural shifts, campus strategy, and polling data
• 11:17–14:00 – Religious revival, unique Gen Z approaches
• 14:19–17:43 – Memorable Harvard encounter, messaging strategies
• 18:02–20:26 – Why winning women is central; internal pro-life movement criticism
• 21:01–24:52 – Chemical abortion pills policy battle, environmental concerns
• 24:54–25:20 – Podcast wrap-up and how to follow Kristen Hawkins

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Conclusion

Hawkins portrays a movement deeply engaged with Gen Z, fighting on multiple fronts: legal, cultural, and interpersonal. Successes like Roe’s reversal are met with new obstacles, including the distribution of chemical abortion pills and shifting cultural values. The episode's overarching message is clear: effective, respectful outreach—especially to young women—is both the greatest challenge and the surest path to future policy victories.

For further information, listeners are invited to follow Kristen Hawkins on her podcast and social platforms.

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Transcript

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life Movement Our mission is to go onto campuses, is to speak the truth nationally that every human is created in the image of our maker and has infinite value and dignity. That is the child in the womb and that's also her.

[Georgia Howe]

College campuses have become ground zero for the fight over abortion, with pro lifers and abortion activists competing for the hearts and minds of the next generation.

[John Bickley]

One of the pro life groups taking their messages two universities as students for life action. And they say they're seeing real results despite serious headwinds.

[Georgia Howe]

In this episode, we sit down with the president of the group, Kristin Hawkins, to discuss the pro life movement's successes and setbacks on college campuses across the country. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Executive editor John Bickley. This is a weekend edition of MORNING Wire.

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[Georgia Howe]

Kristen, thank you so much for coming on.

[Kristen Hawkins]

Thanks for having me.

[Georgia Howe]

So you do a lot of campus outreach regarding the pro life issue. And of course, we know that young women in general tend to be pretty pro choice, but is that true at the college level? What are you seeing there?

[Kristen Hawkins]

There's a lot of fascinating trends going on with Gen Z versus Gen Y. I've been doing this long enough. We've actually transitioned a whole generation right from the snowflake millennials to now Gen

Z. I mean, I think it's certainly when we look at the demographics, young

men have gone right and they've shifted hard. Right. In fact, Charlie's, I think it was his last TV show he was on Laura, the night before he was murdered, he and I were texting.

There had been a study that came

out in September from, I think it

was abc and they did it of

youth voters who voted for Trump versus Kamala.

And it shows kind of what we're

seeing on campuses pretty accurately where they

did women and men who voted for

Trump, young women and men who voted

for Kamala and the the young men who voted for Trump, they were asked to rank 1 through 13 what success

in their life looked like.

For young men who voted for President

Trump, number one marker of success was having children. I think marriage was like third or fourth. For women who voted for President Trump, young women, it was like four. For having kids, it was the fourth marker of success.

For men who voted for Kamala Harris, it was 10. For women who voted for Kamala Harris, it was 12 out of 13. The only thing that beat out having

kids was social media influencer was 13 for all four demographics.

And so I think that shows you

what we're facing on college campuses right now where we have seen this shift

of young men who will vocally say they oppose abortion. We have younger women who've moved somewhat

conservative who will kind of talk. But then you have this opposite of the pendulum where you just have unhinged. And we've all seen these girls on TikTok and on Twitter, right? The blue haired, purple haired, green haired, septum ring girl who's just unhinged. One of my things is that I've been really focusing on when I'm reaching out to other pro life leaders or folks that are on college campuses doing ministry work is reminding everyone that she's also part of our mission too, that you know, especially as X and social media has moved so hard. Right. And it's kind of like that's the trending influencer thing of like let's make

fun of the girls, let's you know,

blame Madame's success all on the white middle aged Karens who own cats and then talk about let's taking away their right to vote and some of this crazy stuff that we're starting to see.

We have to remember in the pro

life movement, our mission is to go onto campuses, is to speak the truth nationally that every human is created in the image of our maker and has infinite value and dignity. That is the child in the womb and that's also her. And that's really where the conversation's shifting on campus is of who gave you value and do you as a 21, 22 year old young woman, do you have value? We believe you do you have the same value as a child within you and you're both in equally valuable and worthy of a great wonderful life.

[Georgia Howe]

How long have you been doing this on campus?

[Kristen Hawkins]

I started Students for life in 2006. Okay, so this is my 20th year.

[Georgia Howe]

What kind of in that time have you seen trends in one way or another? So basically what I want to know is obviously we have the divergent groups of women, but are we seeing any kind of success overall with the pro life movement or do you see more in the other direction with young women?

[Kristen Hawkins]

Definitely seen a lot of success. I mean we've seen the trends going

from gen Y to Gen Z. Right, Gen Y. It was, it was harder to have a conversation about abortion. Don't talk about that. That's, that's not polite, that's too difficult. Or Gen Z is, is much more direct. They don't mind the direct conversation, which is why videos of me on campuses go viral now.

Before, even though I am a millennial, I was born in the wrong decade.

Apparently I'm either an X or a Z. I'm definitely not a Y. Right.

The Gen Zs value that directness. But I do think we've seen substantial

success in the broader pro life movement reversing Roe. The thing that we talked about when I launched Students for Life, preparing for this moment, everyone told us and me that it was impossible and it was imprudent to even think that Roe would ever be reversed, let alone prepare an army for that moment. Now, we saw Planned Parenthood, you know,

the nation's largest abortion vendor, defunded of

80% of their taxpayer dollars for one year this past year because of the BBB and the leadership we saw in the House.

So we've made remarkable gains. We have now whole regions of our

country that are legally abortion free or heavily restricted. Now illegal chemical abortion pills are flooding into their borders because Pam Bondi and the DoJ refused to enforce the federal Comstock act, which would prevent this illegal shipping of chemical abortion pills into the pro life states. But we have made progress and we've seen this progress now playing out in the culture where young men are valuing having children, getting married. We're seeing some women come along, but we definitely have also seen the rise and the counter of the resistance of the Dobbs decision. And you saw young women very quickly go hard left when they were in

for so long demographically.

When we polled, we did focus groups and qualitative and quantitative polling, you had a lot of people that said they were in the middle. They were the mushy middle right. I don't like abortion, but I don't want to be considered pro abortion or pro choice. I want to be in the middle.

When the Dobbs decision came out, it

forced those in the middle to pick a side and the left. Planned Parenthood went hard for these young women, pulling them over to their side. And so now we're trying to reach back and pull them back to a position.

I think our polling this January with YouGov shows us kind of surprising.

I think for folks who aren't on

the ground, nearly 7 in 10 Gen

Z and Gen Y voters want to

see restrictions on abortion. Nine in ten see, say that common

sense safety standards on chemical abortion pills should be in place, which the Trump administration has not done.

I mean, those are some pretty good numbers. We saw a 34% shift. Three in 10 said they'd be more

likely to vote for politicians to restrict abortion if they felt that women had the resources they need after choosing life.

That was a seven point Overton window

shift between a pro choice person at the beginning of the poll, towards the end of the poll with that question.

So there's definitely calming ground and there's, there's definitely room to move. We are not even in the middle

yet when it comes to abortion. In most of our states we've seen,

[John Bickley]

we've been tracking the religious almost revival that was happening over the last few months. More receptivity among college students in general to religious messages. You said your message is primarily one of who gives you value. Do you see that working among women, particularly on the left on college campuses?

[Kristen Hawkins]

We'll find out this spring when I'm back on campuses. My tour is called Abortion is Human Sacrifice.

So it's gonna be a very interesting

conversation with young women who've been told for decades to sacrifice their child by the feminist movement. The lies of the feminist movement.

I think we have seen, especially since

Charlie's assassination, we've definitely seen this huge shift, right, and this openness towards religion, towards faith. I mean, I get text messages from kids I've met years ago going, what Bible should I get? Which one? Is there a podcast that you listen to?

That's great. The bad news is this is the

least church generation in American history.

So the Pew poll that came out in June of this year, this was the first youth generation that polled under

50% self identifying as Christian.

Not even living out Christian values, just self identifying. That was the first time in their history that it was under 50%. So we've seen this huge spike, which is amazing, but it's because we are

starting at a very low ground.

And that's something we have to realize

when we're on campus and I'm on campuses, for example, I cannot take for granted.

I can't assume that the person I'm

talking to even understands the gospel or what Christians believe at all.

[Georgia Howe]

Now you said that Gen Zs prefer a more direct approach. What have you found is the most effective way to speak to those women who are on the left? Not necessarily the blue hair, but like your cosmopolitan.

[Kristen Hawkins]

They're my favorite.

[Georgia Howe]

Your cosmopolitan coastal young woman who's fashionable but considers herself pro choice. How, what do you find as successful with that group? Because that seems to be like I've

[Kristen Hawkins]

never heard of the phrase cosmopolitan coastal. That's so cool.

[Georgia Howe]

But you know what I mean.

[Kristen Hawkins]

No, I know what you mean. No, I love speaking to them and they're the whole reason I'm going to campuses.

Right.

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[Kristen Hawkins]

Frustrated if I walk into a room and it's a bunch of pro life kids, right? Because they, they, they've all seen my videos. They could.

They're probably smarter than they, they are smarter than me.

Halfway of them, right? I'm there for these women who were trying to bring out of these lies

what I see on campuses and what I always wish I could have like a little, almost like a GoPro on me that would animate what's going on in their brains because I get the

best view on campus because I can

see the little animated light bulbs going

off on their heads.

And you can see them processing what I'm saying. And even if they really hate me and they've come because they really hate

me, they have a really hard time hating what I'm saying.

I was thinking about these girls. I was at Harvard, I think it was last spring. And these two girls come in middle of my speech, they're in a huff,

they've got their midriffs on.

You know, everybody else is very conservative in this room. I knew they were like, they're there for a fight.

They're there for the Q and A.

And I started talking about the lies

that the second wave feminists told American women.

You know, this belief that you aren't strong enough, that you have to choose between having your child and having your

career or completing your educational goals.

That this was the opposite of what feminism was supposed to be, Right? Abortion is the opposite of empowerment because it says you are not strong enough. You can give us money, those of us who profit off of your despair. And we'll take care of it for you while you can remain chained to

your desk and make a profit for somebody else.

But for all your childbearing years, right? And then when you're 40 years old and you want to have kids, then you can give another industry, the IVF industry, a bunch of money to have

maybe a 50% success rate. Right?

So I started talking to these girls

that entered the room and I was

talking about, well, how are we actually having hard conversations? Abortion does not allow us. The abortion lobby in D.C. does not

allow us to have actual hard conversations.

We are the only organization that Students for Life Action that's actually been campaigning and lobbying for paid family leave policy, for example, expanded child tax credit. And there's conservative ways to do it, right?

Borrowing from your own Social Security, not a payroll tax.

There's legitimate policy debates of how do

we make these things work. But we can't have honest conversations about supporting families because of abortion.

Because the other side just doesn't even allow.

Like we're trying to introduce a bill, abbreved Parents Rights act right now in Congress. Been searching for a Democrat to co sponsor it.

All this bill does is if you've had a miscarriage, the hospital is legally required to tell you, you can get your child and you can take your

child to a funeral home and bury

your child and you can grieve your child. Your child doesn't have to be cremated with medical waste. And we can't get a Democrat to

co sponsor that bill.

Why? Because Democrats can't admit that in a

miscarriage you've lost a child and you can't treat that child with dignity.

Because if you do that, that undermines

their entire argument for abortion.

So we can't have act conversations because of abortion. And so these girls, I just, it was so much fun because I was talking to them and they were like, you could tell they were struggling to, like, they wanted to yell at me, but they couldn't. Right? Because I was speaking their language of like, yes, this is what we have always said as feminists, that we believe she's saying it and trying to do it. But yeah, we hate her because she's anti abortion. And so the girls, I, I ran out of the room in the middle

of the speech because, you know, like a woman, my cycle started. It was so much fun.

That's how I never forget that day.

Cause I'm like, this is.

This is. This could be. This needs to be a reality TV show over here. I run out of the room, and these girls meet me in the bathroom,

and they're like, we have to talk.

I mean, I was there for, like,

45 minutes talking to these girls after the event because they just.

They were trying to figure out how

to reconcile their beliefs about me. And they.

They.

They really hated that I was against abortion, that I was taking away their rights.

But then everything else I said made so much sense to them. And they're the reason we go to the campuses, because we have to win. We have to win her.

[Georgia Howe]

Right? They are the stumbling block. So it's almost like you need to crack that argument before you even worry about the men and whatever.

[Kristen Hawkins]

Yeah, No, I mean, if you think about 2026 and 2028, what it's gonna come down to in our country, how close the elections are going to be.

I mean, oh, my gosh, the midterms. I'm already freaking out and having nightmares about the midterms.

Right? We have to win women. It is some of the conversations on

our side of the aisle right now on X, for example. And my algorithm's all whacked, right, based on what I do. But it is unhelpful to have some of these conversations that are happening and

how we are attacking these women because they are our mission, too. They are our neighbors. And yes, we can vehemently disagree and tell them we disagree. Like, yes, voting for Zoran Mondame will

destroy New York City, as we're all now seeing.

Right. But we need to be able to have conversations with them in a reasonable, respectful manner, because they're actually part of our mission, too, is to win them over.

[Georgia Howe]

And just speaking as like, a formerly liberal young woman, I would say that is the linchpin issue that will flip a female voter. Because, you know, people don't like high taxes, you know, and they're not passionate about it, you know, but they are passionate when someone says, you're being attacked, yeah, your rights are being attacked, your life will be over if you do not have this specific right. So I would say, like, that if you can. If you can figure out how to massage your message for that group, like,

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[Kristen Hawkins]

It's so important. The problem is that I'm seeing right

now is I'm getting attacked on my. On my own side. Like, I. Oh, you're a raging feminist.

There's too many women leaders in the pro life movement. We need more men to. There was literally a podcast recently where

the person said, you.

When women fight, it's ugly. You can't fight moloch Satan with women. I was like, shut the hell up. You wear loafers and you're in a freaking podcast room. I'm, like, out on the ground getting, like, sunburnt on campuses and getting spit at and yelled at and death threats. So, like, I don't know, join me on a campus and do the hard work. But it's weird because there's, like, this division within the movement. I think within the conservative movement, we gotta check ourselves a little bit of, like, these women are not our enemies. They are our friends.

They are our sisters, our siblings.

They are our neighbors.

They're part of our mission, too, just as much as these babies that we're trying to save.

Because if we don't save her, if we can't convince her that she has value and worth and dignity, it's almost impossible to convince her that the temporarily inconvenient child in her womb for nine

months also has value and dignity, is worth sacrificing for.

If she doesn't think her life is

worth sacrificing and somebody else sacrificing for her.

[Georgia Howe]

Well. And there's a lot of young men who want to get married, and there's not enough women for them to marry.

[Kristen Hawkins]

Yes.

[Georgia Howe]

So, you know, you have to start recruiting young men.

[Kristen Hawkins]

I'm making you young conservative women who are dateable again.

[Georgia Howe]

So in terms of the pro life movement, what do you say is the most immediate policy goal that you want to see?

[Kristen Hawkins]

We have to end chemical abortion pills. The leading cause of infant death in our country today are chemical abortions.

Chemical abortions are abortions that are happening in homes, in dormitories.

There's two pills, mifepristone. Mifepristol.

The first pill is a progesterone blocker

which starves the baby and kills the baby. Mifepristol is the second pill that induces contractions.

A woman is told when a period cramps get too much, the bleeding gets too heavy to sit on the toilet,

get in the bathtub, flush, don't look.

We are aborting children into our waterways.

Students for life of America.

We actually have proven that the anti

progesterone metabolites, the three metabolites that are

mipristone that aren't found in any other pharmaceutical drug in the world, are actually in our drinking water.

Now. We've tested water before, Weiss water treatment after and at the tap.

It's actually anti progesterone metabolite, something that any woman who's trying to get pregnant stay Pregnant men who need healthy brain

development all need progesterone. It's in our drinking water.

If you live in a pro life state, I know there's a lot of hubris out there.

What state's more pro life? Like, I always don't talk to a Texan because Texan, we're in here in Tennessee and everyone tells me how great Nashville is, right?

Go to Florida, they do the same thing.

You hear these things of like, I

have lived in a pro life state. It doesn't matter because in two minutes or less, I can pull up On My Phone 8 different websites where a rapist, a minor girl, a minor boy, a deranged parent can go online, order chemical abortion pills. You can be a sex trafficker and order chemical abortion pills. In less than two minutes they will be shipped to you anywhere in the country, regardless of your state's pro life laws. Usually they're shipped without any instructions. If you put on the website that you don't have money, they'll just ship them to you for free. We did this, an undercover investigation in December. I had minor Students for Life leaders. I had one boy in West Virginia, he got shipped 30 pills. It was enough to kill a woman. No instructions, didn't have to pay. So we're trying to pass laws in

at least our Republican states right now

Anti Chemical Abortion Trafficking act, which would allow for state attorneys general to criminally prosecute these illegal shippers and these websites, which, by the way, we don't even know where these pills are coming from. We're not even 100% sure they're real abortion pills. There's no verification or allow families or

a mother who's had an abortion to civilly go after those who sell and vend these abortion pills.

We've been trying to put pressure on the DOJ because we have an 1890 law still in the books called the Comstock act, which makes it illegal, a federal crime to ship abortion related material which has been violated. The Biden DOJ put a memo out

after the jobs decision in 2022, basically saying they weren't going to force it.

The Trump administration has done nothing to enforce this. We have to first stop the illegal

shipments of these pills into pro life

states or you don't live in a pro life state. The FDA has said they're investigating the harms of mepristone.

We know from the EEPC data that

came out this May, more than 10% of women who have these pills will end up in emergency with life threatening

emergency room with life threatening conditions.

They are way more dangerous than what

the FDA told us in 2000.

We need the EPA to act because we've proven they are contaminating our water supply. These are forever chemicals that violate the EPA's own forever chemical standards. And the FDA in 2000, when they approved the pill, literally didn't check the box on the application proving it wasn't violating the Endangered Species act and the Clean Water act didn't even do it. This has been happening for 20 now, six years in our country. We need the Trump administration and the

states to take action on these pills

because if you're serious about ending abortion, this is why Planned Parenthood is now the leading vendor of cross sex hormones

to transgender and gender confused kids that, by the way, are sterilizing.

They have moved on because this whole

abortion industry has moved online to chemical abortion pills and they're not getting the money they used to get.

[Georgia Howe]

So, Kristin, where can people find your podcast?

[Kristen Hawkins]

You can go to Apple Podcasts Anywhere,

YouTube Podcast, the Kristen Hawkins show, or follow me on X and Instagram.

Kristen MercerHawkins all right, well, thank you

[Georgia Howe]

so much for coming in.

[Kristen Hawkins]

Thanks.

[John Bickley]

That was Kristen Hawkins, president of Students for Life Action, and this has been a weekend edition of Morningwire.

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