This needs to stop

She trusted her boyfriend. So, when he handed her a cloudy drink, she had no reason to think twice about it. But what she didn’t know was that the father of her unborn child had ordered abortion pills online, crushed them, and stirred them in to poison her. He pressured her to finish it.

Within hours, she was cramping and bleeding. She lost her baby at 14 weeks—a daughter named Presley Mae. These were the allegations brought against defendant Jon Demeter earlier this year in Montgomery County, Texas. A grand jury has indicted him on charges of injury to a child and a criminal count of providing an abortion.

Our organization, the NC Values Coalition, has been working for several years to protect unborn children and women from abortion crime by mail in our state. North Carolina’s law was written to prevent horrific scenarios like what happened to Presley Mae and her mother. It limits abortion to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and requires that abortion pills be dispensed in person by a licensed physician after informed consent and a 72-hour waiting period.

Furthermore, physicians must physically examine the patient, screen for coercion or abuse, verify gestational age, and conduct a follow-up visit. Yet despite these protections, “shield laws” in other states and unapproved websites are facilitating nearly 2,000 illegal abortion pill shipments into North Carolina each month.

Not only does shipping these pills to North Carolina women violate our state laws, it also violates federal law. The Comstock Act makes it a federal crime to use the U.S. Mail or any interstate carrier to ship any drug intended for producing an abortion. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have both recently noted that companies selling abortion pills across state lines may be violating the Comstock Act and undermining the democratic decisions of states like North Carolina to protect unborn children. Our organization has recently called on the U.S. attorneys for North Carolina to investigate these violations of the Comstock Act.

There are many other stories of men using mifepristone as a tool of abortion and abuse across our nation. In Parker County, Texas, Justin Banta was charged with capital murder after allegedly spiking a partner’s drink at a coffee shop with abortion pills, ending the life of her unborn child against her desires. In McLean County, Ill.—a state where abortion remains legal—Emerson Evans was charged after allegedly inserting four mifepristone pills into his pregnant girlfriend without her consent, four times the recommended oral dose, administered in a manner the drug was never meant to be taken. Evans later told police that he “made the decision for her.”

And in 2025, Ohio surgeon Hassan-James Abbas, was charged after prosecutors alleged that he ordered abortion medications, crushed them, and attempted to force them into his pregnant girlfriend’s mouth while she was sleeping after she said did not want an abortion.

The NC Values Coalition recently joined a national campaign urging concerned Americans to contact the Trump administration and their members of Congress to demand federal officials reinstate medical safeguards and enforce existing federal law so that abortion pills are no longer able to be mailed. Anyone from any state can use the easy tool provided at abortioncrimebymail.com to let their elected officials know that they are concerned for the lives and safety of unborn children and women.

The death of Presley Mae is just the latest tragedy demonstrating how mail-order abortion turns North Carolina—and the whole country—into a crime scene. This needs to stop.