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Georgia's draconian heartbeat law is criminalizing women for making deeply personal medical decisions. Alexia Moore's murder charge is exactly the kind of devastating outcome abortion bans inevitably produce — punishing women instead of supporting them. No law in Georgia actually permits a murder charge for an alleged abortion, making this prosecution an alarming government overreach.
Alexia Moore was 22-24 weeks pregnant — not six weeks — when she took abortion medication, and the baby survived nearly two hours after birth. Moore's own words confirm this wasn't a gray area: she stated she wanted the infant to die. Georgia's law exists precisely to protect lives like this one, and holding someone accountable for that is justice, not oppression.