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North Carolina Woman Charged With Assault With a Deadly Weapon for Taking Abortion Pills (meidasnews.com)
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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.

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[–] 3 points 1 month ago*

so....can doctors be charged for involuntary manslaughter for not saving someone's live?

Or insurreres

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Y'allQuada in action.

    Fuck these regression assholes (or better yet, don't. They deserve to be celebrate forever)

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    [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The article says she was at 31 weeks when she took the medication. I think the cutoff for prescribing that medication is 12 weeks. I would think that a doctor would ask the person how far along they are before providing the pill. My thought here is that either the doctor was negligent or the patient lied to the doctor about how far along they were(could have been unintentional).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    We should bear in mind a couple things here:

    1: let's not draw lines in the sand about reproductive health. There are any number of factors at play here that we are not privy to.

    2: she turned 18 the month before the alleged event. Familial pressures and mores are not always shared and she may have sought care at the earliest opportunity.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I didn’t intend to draw a line, I was only stating that the facts of the story don’t seem to add up. Parental consent laws are jacked up for sure. Way too many opinions involved in a decision that should be made between the patient and their doctor.

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