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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore and agencies

Judge sets $1 bail for Georgia woman charged with murder for taking abortion pills

A person holding an orange medicine box.
A clinic’s staff member prepares mifepristone, the first pill in a medical abortion, for a patient in Carbondale, Illinois, in April 2024. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

A Georgia judge set a $1 bond for a woman facing murder charges tied to allegations she used abortion pills to end a pregnancy, potentially paving the way for a possible reduction or dismissal of charges.

Alexia Moore, 31, was arrested by police in Savannah earlier this month on a warrant that echoed a 2019 Georgia law banning abortions after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected.

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