She helped kill Roe v Wade – now she wants to end abortion in America – By Holly Honderich (BBC News) / June 22, 2023
When Kristan Hawkins was 23, she started sleeping in her office.
It was years before her organisation, Students for Life of America (SFLA), would become one of the largest, most influential anti-abortion groups in the country. And it was more than a decade before she would stand outside the US Supreme Court to announce to her triumphant supporters that the nationwide right to abortion had been undone.
But back then, in 2008, the SFLA headquarters were in Arlington, Virginia, and the closest town where Hawkins and her husband could afford to buy a house was 90 minutes away.
At first, she tried the commute, leaving home at 5am and returning at 8pm. But the drives became too much, gas too expensive.
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