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Judge sets $1 bail for Georgia woman charged with murder for taking abortion pills
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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Pre-jury-nullification says what?
Judicial nullification is already a thing.
Yeah. Was trying to be funny
Keith Higgins, the district attorney, did not object to the bond in court and told the judge police did not consult his office before filing the charges.
Yep. This is headed to nolle prosequi town.
Wait, I thought felony charges had to come from the DA. How are the police able to just pick someone up and charge them with a felony?
I thought that too...
But it also Georgia. So they're likely doing whatever the fuck they want anyway regardless of the law. Especially now they've got federal fascist backing.
According to court records, Moore went to a hospital in December last year with abdominal pain and told medical staff she had taken misoprostol, a drug used in medication abortions, along with oxycodone.
Authorities said medical records estimated Moore was between 22 and 24 weeks pregnant and investigators say the fetus survived for about an hour after delivery at the hospital.
I didn't expect her to be that far along the pregnancy, but regardless, fuck that hospital for snitching on her. Sounds like she got 2 drug charges on top of the bs fetus murder charge too.
It's a shame, it sounds like she would have made a great mother.
We really need to revisit the 8th amendment.
We really need to revisit the whole fucking constitution. Plenty of other countries have drafted and approved modern constitutions. We don't need to hold on to this one because old and tradition.
But the current constitution isn't even being followed. A modern one wouldn't change that..
and was struggling to breathe
uhm ... what?