Alexia Moore took abortion pills and went to a Georgia emergency room in pain, where a security guard called the police.
The fetus was delivered at the hospital and did not survive. The county coroner ruled the cause of death undetermined. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation declined to perform an autopsy. Local police charged Moore with felony murder anyway, building their case from her medical records and her own words to the nurses who treated her.
She has been jailed for more than two weeks. Today, the Trump administration opened what it calls conscience investigations into all 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion. That’s the next step in a Project 2025 roadmap to eliminate that coverage by threatening to pull states’ Medicaid funding.
One woman in a rural county jail and 13 state governments are under federal investigation because they believe women have a fundamental right to make their own health care decisions. Call your representatives and demand they protect abortion access before the next woman arrives at an emergency room and leaves in handcuffs.
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