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Georgia Woman Charged With Murder in Apparent Self-Managed Abortion

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20.03.2026

Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest.

Georgia woman charged with murder for alleged abortion

Georgia’s abortion ban doesn’t allow people who end their pregnancies to be prosecuted. But that didn’t stop police from charging a woman with felony murder—or the news media from plastering her face online. The woman visited the ER for pain in late 2025, after she allegedly took the abortion drug misoprostol. She later delivered prematurely, and staff reported her to the police. The “unprecedented” murder charge, one advocate said to Jezebel, “will cause untold harm to........

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