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94  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

whatsoever for that purpose, shall be punished by im-
prisonment in the penitentiary for not less than three 
years,  or  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  hundred  nor 
more than one thousand dollars, or by both, in the dis-
cretion of the Court; and in case of fine being imposed, 
one half thereof shall be paid to the State of Maryland,
and  one-half  to  the  School  Fund of  the  city  or  county 
where the offence was committed; provided, however, 
that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as 
to prohibit the supervision and management by a reg-
ular practitioner of medicine of all cases of abortion oc-
curring spontaneously, either as the result of accident, 
constitutional debility, or any other natural  cause, or
the production of abortion by a regular practitioner of 
medicine when, after consulting with one or more re-
spectable physicians, he shall be satisfied that the foe-
tus  is  dead,  or  that  no  other  method  will  secure  the 
safety of the mother.”96 

28.  Florida (1868):

Ch. 3, Sec. 11.  “Every person who shall administer 
to any woman pregnant with a quick child any medi-
cine, drug, or substance whatever, or shall use or em-
ploy  any  instrument,  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 nec-
essary for such purpose, shall, in case the death of such 
child or of such mother be thereby produced, be deemed
guilty of manslaughter in the second degree.” 

Ch. 8, Sec. 9.  “Whoever, with intent to procure mis-
carriage of any woman, unlawfully administers to her,
or advises, or prescribes for her, or causes to be taken 
by  her,  any  poison,  drug,  medicine,  or  other  noxious
thing,  or  unlawfully  uses  any  instrument  or  other 

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96 1868 Md. Laws p. 315 (emphasis deleted and added).