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'A 31-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Kingsland, Georgia, has been charged with attempted murder, the first time that a mother has been charged under Georgia’s restrictive abortion law.

The arrest comes two months after Alexia Moore was rushed to the emergency room in Camden County, pregnant and in extreme pain. Doctors at the Southeast Georgia Health System hospital delivered a severely premature baby girl who lived for approximately two hours, according to police.

On March 4, Kingsland Police charged Moore with attempted murder and possession of a controlled substance and dangerous drug for what they allege was an attempted illegal abortion.

...the situation has created fear and anxiety for Moore’s 6-year-old and 9-year-old children, who don’t understand why their mother is in jail.

“As a mother, and me talking as a grandma, she’s an excellent mother. I believe her children are her life. She has been a good provider for her children,” Edith Moore said.

A security guard at Southeast Georgia Health System’s St. Marys hospital called local law enforcement to investigate Moore “after ER staff discovered that Moore had attempted to abort the child,” according to the arrest report. Moore’s friend, who came to the hospital on December 30, told a responding police officer that Moore had used the abortion medication misoprostol and had taken pain medication, according to the report.'

Edward Helmore at The Guardian:

A Georgia judge set a $1 bond for a woman facing murder charges tied to allegations she used abortion pills to end a pregnancy, potentially paving the way for a possible reduction or dismissal of charges.

Alexia Moore, 31, was arrested by police in Savannah earlier this month on a warrant that echoed a 2019 Georgia law banning abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected. Moore was charged with murder after police determined she 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”.

Moore’s case is believed to be one of the first occasions of a woman being charged for terminating a pregnancy in Georgia since it passed a law banning most abortions and criminalized medical or hospital staff for aborting a fetus older than six weeks.

But superior court judge Steven Blackerby said during a bond hearing on Monday that he thought the charge to be “extremely problematic”, adding: “I have concerns that the state would ever be able to secure a conviction of malice murder.”

Moore had been incarcerated since her arrest on 4 March in Camden county. She was released on Monday after posting a bond of $2,001, including $1 for the murder charge and $1,000 each for two drug-related charges. Under Georgia law, Moore would still need to be indicted by a grand jury before the murder charge can move forward. Moore’s family told the Georgia news website the Current, that Moore, a US army veteran, who was arrested on 6 March, welcomed the decision to release her and interpreted the judge’s decision as favorable. “Have you ever heard of someone having a murder charge with $1 bail?” said Rosalyn Jones, Moore’s biological mother. “From looking at the evidence, I’m not the judge or the jury. All I can see is God has given her favor, that’s all I know.”

Judge Steven Blackerby sets a $1 bail for Alexia Moore, who was arrested and jailed on “murder” charges for using abortion pills to end a pregnancy due to Georgia’s heinous anti-abortion law HB481.

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Kylie Cheung at Abortion, Every Day (03.31.2026):

Authorities have released few details about the murder case against Alexia Moore—except for one carefully chosen claim: that after the Georgia woman took abortion pills, she gave birth to a “baby” who “had a beating heart and was struggling to breathe.” Since Moore’s arrest, this narrative has been uncritically parroted by mainstream media—making it that much easier for law enforcement to build their case. Remember: Georgia’s abortion ban doesn’t allow for the prosecution of abortion patients. By claiming the “victim” (Moore’s pregnancy remains) became “a person at the moment of live birth,” police are slickly circumventing state law. But the medical realities around ‘born alive’ classifications are far more complicated than police reports and media headlines would suggest. Abortion, Every Day spoke to a board-certified OBGYN, Dr. Armide Storey, at length about the red flags they see in police language and media coverage of Moore’s case. A fellow at Physicians for Reproductive Health, Storey says this language appears to be an “intentional reframing of what is clinically a pregnancy outcome to sound like harm to a newborn child.”

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As Jessica wrote last week, police accounts aren’t neutral: arrest warrants and court records are crafted specifically to aid in prosecutions. Consider the quote that police attributed to Moore herself: the warrant says the 31-year-old veteran and mother of two told a nurse, “I know my infant is suffering, because I am the one who did the abortion. I want her to die.” What a cop claims a nurse told him Moore said is not a legitimate ‘quote’ by any stretch of the imagination. Yet it’s been picked up and published across the country. In cases like this, every word matters—certainly the language police and press relay about a ‘born alive’ infant. One key flag from Storey: if someone goes into early labor, a fetus or neonate can show “signs of life”—like movement or a heartbeat—as early as the middle of the second trimester. But that doesn’t mean it’s ‘born alive,’ viable, or has any meaningful chance of surviving. ‘Born alive’ is a made up legal term, not a medical term. “It appears to be an intentional misuse of language to evoke murder,” Storey says.

[...] Over and over, we encounter law enforcement’s obsession with whether a fetus or neonate showed signs of life. This is rooted in their desperation to justify criminalizing someone in the midst of significant medical trauma. In fact, some of the most prominent pregnancy criminalization cases we’ve seen in recent years have centered around police claims that an ‘infant’ was ‘born alive,’ had a heartbeat, or tried to breathe. We saw this precisely with Laken Snelling’s case in Kentucky last year—when a viral, misogynist smear campaign framed the college student as a cold-blooded killer. The same happened when Kelsey Carpenter in California was charged with homicide and felony child abuse after her infant didn’t survive a home birth. Part of the state’s case was that the baby was “born alive.”

And in January, a Virginia woman was arrested over her pregnancy loss from 35 years ago—and police have justified this because they claim her ‘baby,’ found in a dumpster in 1991, was ‘born alive.’ As experts at Pregnancy Justice have noted, that ‘born alive’ classification is often derived from debunked forensic science—like the medically unsound “lung float test.” The claim that a fetus or neonate was ‘born alive’ is then repeated—without critical context—by mainstream media, allowing police to justify criminal charges.

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This is similar to how fetal ‘viability’ ’isn’t a medical term—there’s simply too much variance across each pregnancy to legislate pregnancy at all. When anti-abortion lawmakers try to do this—or otherwise contribute to a political environment in which state agents deputize themselves as authority figures in our pregnancies—the result is devastating.

The arrest of a 31-year-old woman in Georgia has ignited a deeply polarizing legal and ethical debate in the United States, bringing renewed attention to how abortion laws are enforced at the individual level. Alexia Moore now faces a murder charge after authorities allege she used medication to terminate her pregnancy beyond the legally permitted timeframe. The case stands out not only because…