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.
Giving birth would have also been a great risk to her life.
Absolutely. I never once said, hinted at, suggested that birth was an option. Reread my first comments. Abortion was always on the table for me.
Abortion was never on the table for her. She couldn’t access an abortion.
You really think I want birth. You are harmful to the abortion cause. You make enemies of those who agree with you but have minor disagreements. Find some resources on the narcissism of small differences. Study it. Realize how it harms good causes. Realize that you are doing it here.
You have a very fundamental misunderstanding of how pregnancy works.
Instead of listening to others here that are more knowledgeable, you doubled down and starting accusing others of not reading your comments.
She discovered she was pregnant at 20 weeks. There were no other options besides giving birth and she is a child. The state backed her into a corner.