Georgia police accuse woman of murder, citing heartbeat abortion law
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An arrest warrant said the woman caused the death of a “human being who was born alive and survived for one hour.\
Georgia police have arrested and accused a 31-year-old woman of murder after she sought emergency medical care when she took pills to induce an abortion.
Alexia Moore, of Kingsland, is held in Camden County jail on suspicion of murder and drug possession after police say she terminated her second-trimester pregnancy in late December. Georgia police said Moore violated the state’s abortion law that bans abortions after six weeks, when a heartbeat is detected.
Local prosecutors have yet to indict Moore after Kingsland police took her into custody on March 4 in southeastern Georgia, about 100 miles from Savannah, according to court records. If the case moves forward, Moore could be one of the first women prosecuted after terminating a pregnancy under the state’s law, enacted in 2019, before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
Local police cited the state’s 2019 abortion law, saying the fetus was “well beyond six weeks of conception based on the medical staff's knowledge that the baby had a beating heart and was struggling to breathe.”
Lawyers for Moore, who has demanded a speedy trial, didn’t immediately respond to email requests for comment. The District Attorney’s office, in Brunswick Judicial Circuit, didn’t respond to a request for comment. The Kingsland Police Department declined to comment.
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