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88  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

cause to be administered to any woman pregnant with 
child, any drug, potion, or any other thing, for the pur-
pose  of  procuring  abortion,  or  a  premature  delivery, 
shall be imprisoned at hard labor, for not less than one,
nor more than ten years.”84 

17.  Iowa (1858):

Sec. 1.  “That every person who shall willfully admin-
ister to any pregnant woman, any medicine, drug, sub-
stance  or  thing  whatever,  or  shall  use  or  employ  any 
instrument or other means whatever, with the intent 
thereby to procure the miscarriage of any such woman, 
unless the same shall be necessary to preserve the life 
of such woman, shall upon conviction thereof, be pun-
ished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of 
not exceeding one year, and be fined in a sum not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars.”85 

18.  Wisconsin (1858): 

Sec. 11.  “Every person who shall administer to any 
woman  pregnant  with  a  child  any  medicine,  drug,  or
substance whatever, or shall use or employ any instru-
ment  or  other  means,  with  intent  thereby  to  destroy 
such child, unless the same shall have been necessary 
to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have been 
advised by two physicians to be necessary for such pur-
pose,  shall,  in  case  the  death  of  such  child  or  of  such
mother be thereby produced, be deemed guilty of man-
slaughter in the second degree.”86 

Sec. 58.  “Every person who shall administer to any 
pregnant woman, or prescribe for any such woman, or
advise or procure any such woman to take, any medi-
cine, drug, or substance or thing whatever, or shall use 

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84 La. Rev. Stat. §24 (1856) (emphasis added). 
85 1858 Iowa Acts p. 93 (codified in Iowa Rev. Laws §4221) (emphasis 

added). 

86 Wis. Rev. Stat., ch. 164, §11, ch. 169, §58 (1858) (emphasis added).