The judge also noted that Georgia law prohibits the criminalization of someone who has induced an abortion on themself.

A state judge in Georgia on Monday set a bail payment at just $1 for a woman who was charged with murder earlier this month after she took abortion pills to end a pregnancy — a charge about which Judge Steven G. Blackerby of State Superior Court expressed extreme skepticism. “I think that charge is extremely problematic,” Blackerby said during a hearing that the woman, Alexia Moore…

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