JUDGE SETS ONE DOLLAR BOND IN MURDER CASE OF WOMAN USING PILLS TO INDUCE ABORTION
A Georgia judge has set a one-dollar bond for a woman facing a murder charge tied to allegations she used pills to end a pregnancy.
Superior Court Judge Steven Blackerby decided it in a bond hearing Monday for 31-year-old Alexia Moore, questioning the strength of the case.
The judge set Moore’s total bond at $2,001, including one dollar for the murder charge and $1,000 each for two drug-related charges.
Moore had been in jail for nearly three weeks after her arrest in Camden County.
Police say they arrested Moore on March 4 using a warrant tied to Georgia’s abortion law, which bans most abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, typically around six weeks into pregnancy.
The case is among the first in Georgia where a woman has been charged with murder for ending a pregnancy since the law was passed in 2019.
Moore went to a hospital in late December with abdominal pain and told medical staff she had taken misoprostol, a drug used in medication abortions, along with oxycodone.
Investigators say the fetus survived for about an hour after delivery at the hospital.
Medical records estimated Moore was between 22 and 24 weeks pregnant.
