Judge grants $1 murder bond for Georgia woman accused of using pills to induce second-trimester abortion

A Georgia justice granted a enslaved of lone $1 to a pistillate charged with execution aft she allegedly took pills to induce an termination astatine astir 5 months pregnant, which is amerciable nether the state's termination restrictions.

Alexia Moore, 31, has spent astir 3 weeks down bars successful coastal Camden County aft her apprehension connected March 4, erstwhile constabulary utilized an apprehension warrant with connection that mirrors the state's termination prohibition aft six weeks gestation.

"I deliberation that complaint is highly problematic," Superior Court Judge Steven Blackerby said of the execution complaint during a enslaved proceeding connected Monday, according to The New York Times.

"That is going to beryllium a hard complaint to convict upon," the justice continued.

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A Georgia justice granted a enslaved of lone $1 for a execution complaint against a pistillate who constabulary accidental took pills to induce an amerciable abortion. (KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images)

Blackerby acceptable Moore's full enslaved astatine $2,001, ordering $1,000 enslaved amounts for each of her 2 cause charges connected apical of the execution charge.

Moore's lawsuit is among the archetypal successful Georgia of a pistillate facing charges for terminating a gestation since the Peach State's termination prohibition was adopted successful 2019, banning abortions aft embryonic cardiac enactment tin beryllium detected, which is typically astatine astir six weeks gestation.

District Attorney Keith Higgins of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit did not situation the $1 enslaved successful tribunal connected Monday and told the justice that constabulary did not interaction his bureau earlier charging Moore, according to reports.

Higgins' bureau would request to get a expansive assemblage indictment earlier it could instrumentality Moore to trial.

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Alexia Moore, 31, posted enslaved and was released connected Monday. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Moore posted enslaved and was released connected Monday, jailhouse records show.

"Today’s determination is simply a reminder that justness is not served by accusation alone," attorneys from the Georgia Public Defender Council, who are representing Moore, said successful a statement.

"Our strategy works champion erstwhile courts cautiously measurement the facts, uphold law protections, and safeguard the rights of each idiosyncratic who comes earlier them," the connection added.

Moore arrived astatine a infirmary connected Dec. 30 and said she was suffering from abdominal pain, according to tribunal records. She told infirmary unit that she took misoprostol, a cause utilized to origin abortions, and the opioid painkiller oxycodone, according to an apprehension warrant obtained by constabulary successful Kingsland, Georgia.

The pistillate told infirmary unit she had taken misoprostol, a cause utilized successful medicine abortions, and the opioid painkiller oxycodone. (SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images)

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The babe survived for astir an hr aft being delivered astatine the hospital, according to the warrant.

The warrant states that constabulary obtained aesculapian records estimating that Moore had been large for 22 to 24 weeks. The papers besides cited "the aesculapian staff’s cognition that the babe had a beating bosom and was struggling to breathe."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.