Georgia Woman Who Said ‘I Want Her to Die’ Gets $1 Bail in Newborn Death Case | The American Spectator

A Georgia judge set bail at $1 on Monday for a woman who is charged with using chemical abortion pills and oxycodone to murder her newborn daughter. 

Alexia Moore, a 31-year-old U.S. Army veteran, was accused of taking misoprostol around 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy. On Dec. 30, she arrived at Camden County hospital with abdominal pain. According to the Washington Times, she told medical staff she had taken about eight misoprostol pills obtained from Access Aid as well as unprescribed oxycodone from a family member. Doctors delivered Moore’s baby, who was born alive and died after roughly an hour.

Moore told nurses, “I know my infant is suffering, because I am the one who did the abortion. I want her to die,” FOX 5 Atlanta reported. 

Kingsland Police arrested Moore on March 4; they charged her with murder and possession of two dangerous drugs after concluding she was pregnant longer than six weeks “based on the medical staff’s knowledge that the baby had a beating heart and was struggling to breathe.” Authorities said she “unlawfully and with malice aforethought, caused the death of baby girl Moore, a human being who was born alive.” 

Georgia passed the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act in 2019, which stated, “No abortion is authorized or shall be performed if an unborn child has been determined … to have a detectable human heartbeat.” While the law included exceptions for rape, incest, and medical emergencies, it stated “as early as six weeks’ gestation, an unborn child may have a detectable human heartbeat,” which effectively banned abortion after 6 weeks.

Moore’s mother, Rosalyn Jones, commented on the case. “Have you ever heard of someone having a murder charge with $1 bail? … From looking at the evidence, I’m not the judge or the jury. All I can see is God has given her favor, that’s all I know,” she said.

At Monday’s bond hearing, Superior Court Judge Steven Blackerby called the murder charge “extremely problematic” and added, “That is going to be a hard charge to convict upon.” The judge set Moore’s total bond at $2,001: $1,000 for each drug charge and $1 for the murder charge. She was held in Camden County jail for three weeks.

Dana Sussman of Pregnancy Justice said in a statement, “No one should be criminalized for having an abortion.” A study from Pregnancy Justice found,“There were at least 210 pregnancy-related prosecutions in the first year after Dobbs … the highest number of pregnancy-related prosecutions documented in a single year.” 

Elizabeth Edmonds, executive director of Georgia Life Alliance, said, “Ms. Moore is not being charged with crimes under Georgia’s LIFE Act. This innocent baby girl was born alive and under Georgia law, her death is being investigated and prosecuted like any other.” She argued, instead, that this case is about risks posed by online drug distributors. “What this case highlights is the danger posed by illegal online abortion pill distributors operating outside the medical system,” Edmonds explained.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, 21 states have enacted major restrictions on abortion by either banning or limiting the procedure to early stages in pregnancy, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. 

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