18-year-old Syeisha Johnson was charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury on an unborn child, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and negligent child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury after allegedly taking the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol to end a pregnancy at 31 weeks in July. Her boyfriend was also arrested and charged with negligent child abuse.
Johnson found out she was pregnant at 20 weeks in June, and then ordered the abortion pills online to be shipped from Virginia. According to the police report: “On July 29, 2026 Ms. Johnson began having abdominal pain and sat down during the day to help with the pain. She sat on the toilet and gave birth to a child.”
Johnson turned 18 in June, meaning she was past the North Carolina requirement for minors to get parental permission for an abortion, however the state bans most abortions after 12 weeks.
Her story comes the same week a recording was released of a call between acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and faith leaders, where Blanche promised that the Trump administration would work to ban mail-order abortion pills nationwide.
We both don't know that. You have guessed it incorrectly. I stated up front that I'm all about abortions being totally legal.
Would you advise someone you knew to take an abortion pill when they were twice into the period it covers? That's a recipe for disaster and by that I mean the mom dying.
I'm about the mom surviving. Not the kid.
Say it with your chest instead of trying to dodge it.
You would have preferred she give birth, right?
Reading comprehension, do you have it? I thought I was very clear that I care about the mom, not the kid. I said up front I'm all about abortion. Learn to listen/read.
You keep blaming the child for the decision making here though.
She had very limited options. She chose the best she could with the options she had. It's not her fault.
I started from the very beginning blaming the state for its stupidity. Everything after that was saying the teen did something that put their own life at risk. Reread everything from the beginning and decide if you are actually hearing what I'm saying or hearing what you want.
No, you blamed the teenager from your very first comment.
She couldn't access an abortion. What other choice did she have?
Blamed her for almost killing herself. Not for trying to get rid of the pregnancy.
What were her other options?
I'll repeat, I'm not an expert. I don't know. But I do know that accidentally killing one's self by using a method 16 weeks past efficacy is a bad idea. And that's what they almost did.
She didn't know she was pregnant until she was 20 weeks.
There were no other options besides giving birth.
It took you this long to admit you don't know after repeatedly telling others they were misunderstanding you?