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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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[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Duranie@leminal.space 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks 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.

Why do you think they try to keep it alive?

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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 2 weeks ago

What about trans women?

[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

About trrreee fiddy inches.

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] criscodisco@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not me. People just don't pay attention.

[-] Martyy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks 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.world 7 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 points 2 weeks ago

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 2 weeks ago

I meant guilt, as in legally.

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

We ought to make conservatism illegal, the way Germany made being a Nazi illegal.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

anti-cock device

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] triptrapper@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

She should seek asylum in a blue state. I'm serious, put that in play cause this is medieval shit they are trying to do and it should be fought as such.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Jo4ted@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

By their logic, cancer treatments are murder. It's a collection of human cells developing in your body, independent of the host.

I don't understand these guys, man. Someone else's ability to have an abortion doesn't stop you from not having one. "Pro-choice" doesn't mean "abort all babies." Same way blood transfusions aren't illegal just because some religions forbid it.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They believe a fetus is a “unique person” and no amount of logic or rationality will change their minds. Nothing else matters to their sick, sociopathic minds.

[-] Jo4ted@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I watched a video today about how MAGA'ts only debate people for publicity. I more like to think they're just too stupid to comprehend anything other than "muh relygion!" Whatever reason, yes, nothing else matters to them.

It was a GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic video, don't remember specifically which one, but it was a great watch imo.

[-] logicslayer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

We failed her. That's pretty much it.

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] brownsugga@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Wait, so all it takes is for the police to "say" you took pills? What about a fucking miscarriage? Like this miscarriage of justice?

[-] scbasteve@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To get arrested? Yeah. To get prosecuted? Technically no

[-] MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Up next: Woman suffering from miscarriage charged with manslaughter

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Manslaughter? These evil, inhuman fucks believe miscarriage is also murder.

[-] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Blessed be the fruit

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 week ago

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 2 points 1 week ago
[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

It doesnt matter that she tried to abort a 5 month pregnancy? Really?

What if she tried to abort a 15 month pregnancy?

Im pro-choice myself, but her actions were ... wrong.

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Why stop at 15 months? What about if mom aborts her 455 month old man-child Ted Brogan?

[-] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

No it doesn’t matter.

There’s no such thing as a 15 month pregnancy.

It doesn’t matter. A woman shouldn’t be forced to use her body against her will. Period. The end.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

A 15 month pregnancy would be a 6 month old child. Watch more South Park.

"Aborting" a pregnancy that is over half term is wrong.

[-] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

False equivalency.

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