Media Paint Mom Charged With Murder As Victim Of Pro-Life Laws

A Georgia woman is facing murder and drug charges after her born-alive baby died shortly after she used illegally obtained drugs in an attempt to end her pregnancy.

Corporate media want Americans to believe that the charges levied against Alexia Zantail Moore are unprecedented, unfair, and all about abortion, since Moore allegedly tried to abort her baby with mail-order misoprostol, a drug often used in combination with mifepristone to initiate chemical abortions.

Yet Moore has not been indicted by a grand jury, a requirement for the felony charges to proceed. Brunswick Judicial Court District Attorney Keith Higgins also has not revealed whether he will pursue prosecution, much less stated whether he will cite Georgia’s LIFE Act or Moore’s alleged possession and use of an illicitly-obtained opioid as justification for the murder charges.

“Ms. Moore is not being charged with crimes under Georgia’s LIFE Act. This innocent baby girl was born alive and under Georgia law, her death is being investigated and prosecuted like any other,” Georgia Life Alliance Executive Director Elizabeth Edmonds told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Moore was allegedly rushed to the hospital for severe pain in December 2025 after taking 200 milligrams of misoprostol and an opioid painkiller. Medical records indicated Moore was more than halfway through her pregnancy, around 22 to 24 weeks, when she delivered her baby alive.

At that point in pregnancy, Moore’s unborn daughter was developed enough to potentially survive outside of the womb with medical intervention. After an hour of “struggling to breathe,” however, the born-alive baby girl with a “beating heart” died. The warrant for Moore’s arrest indicates the oxycodone she reportedly took was detected in her deceased daughter’s blood.

Despite the fact that prosecutors have yet to act on Moore’s case, corporate media across the nation have declared the 31-year-old is sitting in jail because “she took abortion pills to end pregnancy.”

“Pregnant Georgian took an abortion drug. Now she’s in jail on murder charge,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s headline declares.

The implication from outlets such as CBS, Reuters, USA Today, and others is that Georgia is using its pro-life protections to wage a war on women. They also featured quotes from abortion activists declaring the charges “cruel and unjust.”

The warrant for Moore’s arrest acknowledged the baby was “a human being who was born alive and survived for one hour.” Yet CBS and People repeatedly refused to recognize the premature infant’s personhood or sex, instead inaccurately referring to the delivered baby as a “fetus.” In “Maryland Father” fashion, some publications, such as People, even invoked Moore’s history as a U.S. Army veteran in headlines to elicit sympathy for her case.

The media’s twisted coverage didn’t stop there. One local publication even featured an attorney outlining his strategy for Moore’s defense.

“I would hit hard on a woman’s right,” he said. “A woman’s right to privacy. The woman’s right to control her body. The woman’s right to make those decisions.”

This particular attorney, WSAV claimed, said that “it may be hard for the state to prove that Moore intended to kill her baby.” FOX 5 Atlanta reported, however, that Moore allegedly told nurses, “I know my infant is suffering, because I am the one who did the abortion.”

“I want her to die,” Moore reportedly claimed.

One of Moore’s friends also allegedly told police ​that the woman downed the abortion drugs because she “did not want another child.”

Georgia’s LIFE Act prohibits abortion once an unborn baby is determined to have a “detectable human heartbeat,” around six weeks gestation. And charging someone for violating the 2019 abortion limits is legally permissible, as at least one Georgia defense attorney has conceded.

The more commonly invoked Peach State law for charging someone with murder, however, declares that “a person commits the offense of murder when, in the commission of a felony, he or she causes the death of another human being irrespective of malice.” That means Moore’s alleged possession and use of oxycodone, a serious felony punishable by prison time, automatically makes the woman eligible for murder charges.

Even if she didn’t repeatedly signal premeditated intent to end her pregnancy via abortion, Moore could still be charged and convicted under Georgia’s murder statute.

Moore’s situation is not the first time media have twisted the facts about Georgia’s lifesaving law to fearmonger and promote radical abortion narratives. Corporate media blamed the Peach State’s pro-life law for the death of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who died alongside her twin babies after suffering the dangerous and fatal side effects associated with mifepristone. Democrats including Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz used lies about the cause of Thurman’s tragic death to advance their abortion extremism on the 2024 presidential campaign trail.

Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of “The Federalist Radio Hour.” Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.