Pro-life activist Kristan Hawkins’ journey to major American life of America’s student began after she was involved in the Crisis Pregnancy Center as a teenager.
“I was raised in an evangelical home, so it really inspired me in so many ways and in the work of my life,” Hawkins said. “I went to that pregnancy center, started volunteering, and started meeting women. I had the unique opportunity to become a counselor very quickly.”
Hawkins said he saw many women come to the center where they were hopeless and had no other talk.
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A few years later, she leads students for American life, begins meaningful conversations and tries to help people understand the causes of pro-life properly.
Much of Hawkins’ interactions with pro-choice students have become a virus as they have filed a persuasive lawsuit against abortion.
“I have a unique gift that people are not afraid to scream at me. I’m not afraid to scream on campus, not to say what I actually think,” she said. “And that really works on social media in this era.”
These videos helped educate people on the issues surrounding abortion, and according to Hawkins, they also helped save the life of the unborn baby.
“I’ve started seeing a few babies that moms saved me because they saw the video,” she said. “I always see it as such a great proof of hope in how God can use all of us.
Many of these videos call “illogical positions” to help people see more clearly.
But Hawkins doesn’t just fight those on the side of the pro-foreigners, as he detailed the battles that often unfold even in the pro-life movement. An important fight is moving back and forth between whether abortion should be made illegal or whether phased steps should be taken to stop it instead.
Of particular note, some critics say that Hawkins is wrong to portray women as victims when it comes to abortion. Hawkins even said she even had “blood in her hand” to take the position she would do in an abortion.
“Since it began in 2006, the student mission for students has to abolish abortion,” she said. “The concept was that they wanted to mimic the abolitionists of slavery.
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For these groups there was a push to “a complete end to abortion and punishment for all involved in abortion.” According to Hawkins, the people in this camp don’t believe anyone is anti-abortion unless they agree to these parameters.
“Their perspective is that you’ll never really end an abortion unless you subscribe to your mother to a criminal penalty,” she said.
Ultimately, Hawkins said she also hopes to “end abortion as quickly as possible as humanly possible.” However, she said the strategy of “exploding” prolife proposals that do not include these parameters is problematic.
She believes that the best way to make a change is to move the needle – a strategy called incrementalism, even if it’s slower than you want.
“You’re facing like a burning orphanage, you have a child alive and burning, you’re only one, you can enter, all reasonable people will say you’ll go to that orphanage. “You’ll ask for help. You call 911. You ask people on the street, “Go in, join me and save all these babies!”
She continued. “But… a reasonable person stands on the street and says, “Well, I can’t save all the children in an orphanage, so I’ll let them all die.
“Culturally, we’re not there,” Hawkins said when it comes to the prospect of carrying Americans on banning all abortions.
“At the moment in America in 2025, it’s completely out of the realm of possibility, except for the miracle from God that is always possible. “Even if we pass laws that end all abortions… abortion happens because culture isn’t there. So, we’re always on a life support movement, and there are two ends of abortion. Abortion is not available, it becomes illegal, and we’re abolishing abortion cartels, but young women all over the US are to start thinking about old and boring ideas.”
Hawkins also shared her biggest argument that women cannot be punished for abortion, noting that the fastest way to stop abortion is, in her view, “to close the abortion cartel.” More specifically, she detailed some of the complexities involved in this issue.
“How do you plan to prove that every woman knows she’s killing the baby?” she said. “Are you going to chase after every man, every dead dad who gives her money?”
Hawkins continues, “It’s going to be this meaningless logistical nightmare. We won’t immediately eradicate abortion violence.”
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