Students for Life set out to prove how easy it is to order medication abortion from a ban state. Maria Puerto is suing them for the cost of raising two children under a law they helped pass.

In March, the group posted a photo of president Kristan Hawkins and other employees using their phones in front of Houston’s Space Center on Instagram stories. Text overlaying the photo read, “Guess what we are doing? Ordering abortion pills undercover? Yep. Stay tuned.” Not only did SFLA broadcast the stunt online, they conducted it in front of journalist Amy Littlefield, who documented it for Mother Jones. It’s unclear whether they actually obtained the pills.

The law, HB 7, bars legal action against people who obtain pills to end their own pregnancies. However, it allows any private citizen to sue someone for damages if the defendant distributes pills or simply “intends” to do so. Unlike in normal civil suits, the litigant doesn’t have to be personally harmed by the acts of the people they’re suing.

But the woman suing Hawkins and her colleagues was harmed by the state of Texas. Maria Puerto is a 26-year-old single mom who says the state’s abortion bans forced her to give birth not once, but twice. Puerto, who’s using a pseudonym, is suing for $459,782, the average cost to raise two children in Texas until age 18.

  • Didntdoit71@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    12 days ago

    So, she’s suing someone for being more intelligent and resourceful than her? Someone who did her no physical harm…other than not seeking her out and giving her the information she lacked. What a load of shit. Only in Amerikkka, land of the litigous, home of the snowflake. She’s a bottom-feeding opportunist angry that no one assisted her in getting the abortion pills she wanted, but didn’t run a quick “google” to find out how. If she hates her kids that much, she should give them up. What a waste of oxygen.