Veteran Charged With Attempted Murder After Taking Abortion Pill Under Georgia’s Pro-life Law

A Georgia female has go nan first personification to beryllium charged pinch attempted execution nether nan state’s restrictive rule against abortions aft allegedly taking narcotics to induce a miscarriage.

The Peach State’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, which was passed successful 2019, bans abortion aft embryonic cardiac activity tin beryllium detected, which comes astir about nan six-week people successful pregnancy.

Alexia Moore, 31, a U.S. Army seasoned from Kingsland, was rushed to a Southeast Georgia Health System infirmary successful Camden County connected December 30 past twelvemonth while pregnant and reporting utmost abdominal pain, according to The Current.

Doctors astatine nan installation delivered a severely premature babe woman who lived for astir an hour, aft which a information defender astatine nan infirmary reported what had transpired successful nan emergency room to nan police.

Officers arrived and concluded Moore had been pregnant for 22 to 24 weeks aft aesculapian unit recorded nan babe arsenic having a heartbeat and struggling to breathe.

“I cognize my babe is suffering, because I americium nan 1 who did nan abortion,” nan diligent told nan nursing staff, according to nan investigators. “I want her to die.”

Then, connected March 4, Kingsland Police charged Moore pinch attempted execution and possession of a controlled constituent and vulnerable supplier – oxycodone and misoprostol, respectively – which they allege she took arsenic portion of nan attempted forbidden abortion.

Officers said they planned to usage a friend’s grounds fixed astatine nan segment arsenic evidence, on pinch nan patient’s wellness records and nan humor activity of some her and her deceased infant.

Moore, who already has children aged six and nine, is presently successful jailhouse awaiting arraignment.

Her mother, Edith Moore, a Christian pastor, said: “As a mother, and maine talking arsenic a grandma, she’s an fantabulous mother. I judge her children are her life. She has been a bully supplier for her children.”

Moore explained that her girl was adopted and had been discharged from nan subject aft being diagnosed pinch post-traumatic accent disorder.

“She ne'er could understand being adopted,” Moore said of Alexia. “I judge that was traumatic. I judge going into nan military, and winding up pinch PTSD… It was trauma aft trauma, it was business aft situation.”

The circumstances of nan arrested woman’s gestation are not presently known, nor is it known really she acquired nan bluish vessel of misoprostol, which listed nary doctor’s sanction aliases drugstore connected its label, suggesting she whitethorn person bought it online.

Another friend of Moore’s, who said to The Current but did not wish to beryllium identified, said: “I retrieve her calling me, freaking out. She was bawling her eyes out. She said she didn’t cognize what to do.

“‘If worse comes to worst,’ I said, ‘If you 100 percent spell done pinch having nan baby, and if you don’t want it, you tin ever springiness it to me, and you know, it’ll beryllium taken attraction of.’”

They added: “She is simply a awesome person. She is ace bright. She has 2 astonishing small boys that she’s raising to beryllium young men.

“It’s just, it’s mind-blowing that she sewage charged pinch that complete thing for illustration this. This is conscionable crazy.”

Camden County Sheriff Kevin Chaney said nan infirmary information defender who reported Moore’s lawsuit had acted appropriately.

“They’re rule enforcement astatine nan hospital, truthful they’re not conscionable information officers,” he said. “They’re really sworn bid officers successful nan authorities of Georgia. And positive your mandated reports and worldly for illustration that. Along those lines, we stock accusation constantly.”

Sheriff Chaney said officers are monitoring Moore’s wellness aft her mother expressed interest complete her intelligence well-being.

Dana Sussman, elder vice president of nan defense group Pregnancy Justice, said successful a statement, “No 1 should beryllium criminalized for having an abortion,” calling Moore’s lawsuit “an unprecedented execution complaint for an alleged abortion.”

A 2024 study by Pregnancy Justice recovered that astatine slightest 210 women crossed nan U.S. were charged pinch crimes related to their pregnancies successful nan 12 months aft nan Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling that overturned Roe vs Wade and allowed states to enforce abortion bans.

That tally was much than nan group recovered successful immoderate different 12-month period. Most of nan cases progressive allegations of constituent usage during pregnancy.

Andrew Fleischman, a Georgia defense lawyer not progressive successful Moore’s case, said: “Murder is intentionally causing nan decease of a person… I’m not judge prosecutors are eager to beryllium nan first 1 to jump this hurdle.

“I deliberation it’s a wholly legally permissible case. I deliberation they could do it. I’d beryllium amazed if they spell done pinch it.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.