Kristan Hawkins

“You will always get a question about children in foster care, as if a child being in foster care somehow justifies the violence of abortion against a million children a year. You will hear horrific stories about sexual assault and rape, and sometimes these are very deeply personal stories.”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins said pro-choice advocates frequently raise questions about children in foster care and stories of sexual assault and rape.

“Charlie and I were friends, and so it means a great deal to me to be on campuses with his chapters at Turning Point and to really continue doing the work that he set out to do,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins told Fox News Digital that she and Charlie Kirk were friends and it means a great deal to continue his work on campuses.

“There’s a lot of young women who have bought the lies of the second wave and third wave of feminism, and are actually walking around hurt on college campuses unaware of where the pro-life movement really stands with women, all that we do to serve women and families facing unplanned pregnancies and beyond,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins told Fox News Digital that many young women on college campuses are unaware of where the pro-life movement stands with women.

“These videos, these conversations that we're having, not only do they change [the] minds of the 100-plus students who are gathered who can actually hear the conversation happening in real time, they change tens of thousands of minds of young people online,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins said the campus conversations change the minds of students gathered in person as well as tens of thousands of young people online.

“They are not doing okay and we need to back up the conversation and ask the question of ‘why?’”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins said we need to back up the conversation and ask why young women are not doing okay.

“When I'm on campus today, when I am on campus this semester, a lot of my conversations are going to be towards the women and really addressing the lies that the second wave, the late second-wave feminists, the third-wave feminists, told women, that they needed abortion in order to be free and equal. That that was going to make us happy and responsibility-free, and it hasn't worked and by any measure by looking anxiety rates, depression rates, SSRI use, that hasn't worked,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins told Fox News Digital she plans to address the lies she says late second-wave and third-wave feminists told women about needing abortion to be free and equal.

“If men do not have to sacrifice their children in order to succeed, why should women?”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins said in a statement announcing the tour that society should treat motherhood as an essential contribution worthy of honor.

“A society that values women should treat motherhood as an essential contribution worthy of honor, not a liability. Students deserve to hear that case, and we are going to make it on their campuses.”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins said in a statement announcing the tour that students deserve to hear the case for honoring motherhood.

“extremely important that we continue this free speech work”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins said she believes it is extremely important to continue the free speech work that Kirk started.

“Young women are increasingly unhappy,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins added that young women are increasingly unhappy.

“If what's inside a woman is a meaningless clump of cells that is not a human person, then there is no permission needed for abortion, abortion's fine, abortion is nothing,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins framed the abortion debate around the question of what is inside a woman, arguing that if it is not a human person no permission is needed.

“But if what's inside of the woman is unique, all-living human being who is completely unique and unrepeatable, then we need to have a conversation about that human being because all of those things that you hear as a justification for abortion under circumstances, those stop being justifications for harming another member of our human species.”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins argued that if what is inside a woman is a unique human being, common justifications for abortion no longer apply.

“It really doesn't matter, to be honest with you, if I'm at Harvard or if I'm in a community college or a high school, the questions about abortion are about the exact same, no matter where you go,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins told Fox News Digital that the questions about abortion are the same no matter the type of campus she visits.

“There's not a doubt in my mind that these conversations are important for saving lives and changing minds,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins said she has held children whose mothers changed their minds about abortion after watching debate videos online.

“Have women been told the truth about career, equality, empowerment and motherhood?”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-20

Hawkins is set to speak at the tour events and ask students a fundamental question about career, equality, empowerment and motherhood.

“I think it was shocking to see somebody who had obviously said multiple times and in social media posts and has been out the community saying that they were a community organization, coffee shop ... you know, everyone's welcome sign and his rainbow flag is not welcoming to anyone who is a Christian or who is pro-life,”

Kristan Hawkins · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20

Hawkins told Fox News Digital she was shocked by the confrontation given the coffee shop's stated welcoming stance.