A Coastal Georgia district attorney and a Superior Court judge said Monday they were doubtful that enough evidence exists to move forward with a malice murder charge against a 31-year-old Camden County mother arrested earlier this month for an alleged illegal abortion, paving the way for a possible reduction or dismissal of charges.
Kingsland police charged Alexia Moore with malice murder as well as possession of a controlled substance and dangerous drug, according to police records, based on an investigator’s interrogation of Moore in her hospital exam room, where on Dec. 30 she was admitted in extreme pain and her infant was delivered and died.
At a scheduled bond hearing, both DA Keith Higgins and Moore’s defense lawyer Kelly Turner pushed back on any charge linked to Georgia’s restrictive law called the LIFE Act, which makes abortion illegal after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, generally around six weeks of pregnancy.
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