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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”.

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[–] Martyy@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Since when is it murder for a woman to decide what happens to her own body? This is fucked up

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Hey look at that, even though everything else about reality is off in 2026, comedic timing is on point.

It might actually be funny if it was all just a joke instead of hypocrisy for the sake of rubbing in what they can get away with. Which is pretty much anything.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Let us research how far along in the pregnancy this woman was. We can then make an informed decision based on exactly how far along she was when she took these pills, forcing a chemical abortion, then gave birth to a living baby that died. Have you googled the number of weeks yet? Spoiler: Its over have the term.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago

It doesn’t matter.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 59 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

how far away is the US from stoning women in public?

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 55 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That would be barbaric. Instead, we let them die of sepsis or bleed to death from their genitals.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Or have their body kept artificially alive as an incubator for a fetus.

[–] Duranie@leminal.space 16 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

And find a way to charge the fetus for the hospital bill after delivery.

Why do you think they try to keep it alive?

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 8 points 14 hours ago

I believe the grandparents in that scenario are on the hook for the hospital bills for keeping that baby alive. It's so fucked up.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They wouldn't do that. That's a waste of breeding stock after all. She'll simply be tagged and delivered to an incel.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 12 hours ago

What about trans women?

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

About trrreee fiddy inches.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

Backwater shithole in a shithole country

My first thought was what the hell is going down in Geogia? then I realised this isn't about the nation in the Caucasus, but in the US, so that tracks.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 41 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.world 19 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Idiot Senator in 2005: "The body has a way of shutting down unwanted pregnancies"

Society: "WITH THESE PILLS"

Because #science and #freedom

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You're equivocating "guilt" as in feeling at fault/remorseful about doing something immoral (the definition you used), with "guilt" as in it being proven that she violated a law (the definition @chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world used).

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I meant guilt, as in legally.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 33 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Brings to mind a meme I just saw posted a bit ago...

[–] criscodisco@lemmy.world 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Anti-choice terrorists bombed clinics and murdered healthcare workers and patients, and somehow they still won. Makes you wonder…

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Not me. People just don't pay attention.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

She should seek asylum in a blue state. I'm serious, but that in play cause this is medieval shit they are trying to do.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 18 hours ago

Ah darn can't make it there before a Flock camera catalogs the car you're riding in and state police immediately intercept you.

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Blessed be the fruit

[–] logicslayer@lemmy.zip 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We failed her. That's pretty much it.

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

Her and others. Once more women see this article they’ll be reluctant to get life-saving treatment which will result in many unnecessary deaths.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

In other news, sales of these devices are stronger than ever.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] triptrapper@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

It's for women to wear in their vaginas when they believe sexual assault is unavoidable. It has spines pointing inward that will hook onto a penis to stop the assault and punish the assaulter.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

You really didn't want to know... But since you asked, penis goes in, but it doesn't come out.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

anti-cock device