If prosecuted, case against 31-year-old would be one of first in Georgia since it passed 2019 law banning most abortions

A 31-year-old Georgia woman has been charged with murder by police who say she took pills to induce an illegal abortion.

If state prosecutors decide to move forward with the murder charge brought by local police against Alexia Moore, her case would be one of the first instances of a woman being charged for terminating a pregnancy in Georgia since it passed a 2019 law banning most abortions.

The arrest warrant charging Moore with murder uses language that echoes the law, saying police determined that Moore had been pregnant beyond six weeks “based on the medical staff’s knowledge that the baby had a beating heart and was struggling to breathe”.

“No one should be criminalized for having an abortion,” Dana Sussman, senior vice-president of the advocacy group Pregnancy Justice said in a statement, calling Moore’s case “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion”.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    772·
    2 days ago

    The police investigator obtaining the warrant wrote that Moore told the nursing staff: “I know my infant is suffering, because I am the one who did the abortion. I want her to die.”

    That reads like planted testimony, and if it comes to court, it needs to be VERY well stated that it is a 3rd person account, and not a direct admission of guilt.

    • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      401·
      2 days ago

      There’s no guilt to be had no matter what she said. Her body started to create a baby that she didn’t want, so she aborted it. Case closed. There’s nothing wrong with that.