Although she and her boyfriend, Elijah Speight, decided they didn’t want the baby, in North Carolina, abortion isn’t legal after 12 weeks. So, the couple went online to try to order mifepristone from another state, even though the FDA limits the abortion drug’s use to 10 weeks and under. There’s some hope that Todd Blanche, America’s new attorney general, will finally start taking the country’s abortion drug crisis seriously. If Syeisha had been a few days younger, police point out, she’d have also been violating North Carolina’s parental consent law on abortion. “This horrifying story sheds light on the semantics that conversations about abortion so often hinge on,” she told The Washington Stand.