Sign the petition: Drop all charges against Alexia Moore

 

Right now, in America, a woman is facing murder charges for making a decision about her own body. This is what the end of reproductive freedom looks like.

Alexia Moore is a 31-year-old US Army veteran from Georgia. Last December, she went to a hospital in pain. When she told medical staff that she had taken a medication abortion pill, police arrested her and charged her with murder. We cannot stay silent while this happens.

Moore is one of the first women in Georgia charged with murder for terminating her own pregnancy, and it’s up to one man to decide whether her prosecution moves forward: District Attorney (DA) Keith Higgins.¹

Sign the petition now to demand that DA Keith Higgins drop all charges against Alexia Moore.

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Moore was arrested on March 4 after police determined she had taken misoprostol — a medication abortion drug approved by the FDA — to end her pregnancy.² Police charged her with murder under Georgia’s 2019 “heartbeat” law, which bans abortion after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected, typically around six weeks of pregnancy, and before many women even know they are pregnant.³

Even the judge who presided over Moore’s bond hearing wasn’t buying it. He called the baseless murder charge “extremely problematic” and said he had serious doubts the state could ever secure a conviction.⁴ He set her bond at just $1 for the murder charge.⁵ Even so, Moore still faces the very real possibility of a murder prosecution — and DA Higgins has not ruled it out.

Demand DA Keith Higgins drop all charges against Alexia Moore! Sign now.

Here’s the thing: Higgins’ own office didn’t even approve these charges. Police filed them without consulting the DA’s office at all. And the coroner refused to deem the death of the fetus a homicide, citing that the cause and manner of death are undetermined.⁶ In other words, Higgins has the authority and the responsibility to stop this case now. No trial date has been set. The door is open. We need to make sure Higgins walks through it.

This case is a glimpse at the dystopian future that abortion criminalization was always designed to create. We knew that laws like Georgia’s 2019 heartbeat ban would ultimately be used to punish women and pregnant people.⁷ Our friends at Pregnancy Justice found that at least 210 women across the U.S. were charged with crimes related to their pregnancies in the 12 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more than in any comparable period on record.⁸ Alexia Moore’s case is not an accident or an aberration. It’s the point of these sexist laws.

No woman should face murder charges for making a decision about her own body and pregnancy. Will you sign the petition now? 

Thanks for pressuring Higgins with us,

—Nicole and the UltraViolet Action team

 

Sources:

1. A Murder Charge in Georgia Exposes Complexities of the Abortion Debate, The New York Times, March 23, 2026
2. Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took abortion pills to end pregnancy, CBS News, March 20, 2026
3. Ibid.
4. Judge sets $1 bail for Georgia woman charged with murder for taking abortion pills, The Guardian, March 24, 2026 
5. Ibid.
6. Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took abortion pills to end pregnancy, CBS News, March 20, 2026
7. Ibid.
8. 210 People Were Charged With “Pregnancy-Related” Crimes in Year After Roe Ended, Truthout, September 25, 2024

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