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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    23 hours 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 half the term.

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        23 hours 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.

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          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.

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            22 hours 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.