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Cite as:  597 U. S. ____ (2022) 

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Opinion of the Court 
Appendix B to opinion of the Court 

years, in the penitentiary, and fined in a sum not ex- 
ceeding one thousand dollars; and if any woman by rea-
son of such treatment shall die, the person, or persons,
administering, or causing to be administered such poi-
son, substance, or liquid, or using or causing to be used, 
any instrument, as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of 
manslaughter, and if convicted, be punished by impris-
onment for a term not less than three years in the pen-
itentiary, and fined in a sum not exceeding one thou-
sand  dollars,  unless  it  appear  that  such  miscarriage
was procured or attempted by, or under advice of a phy-
sician  or  surgeon,  with  intent  to  save  the  life  of  such 
woman, or to prevent serious and permanent bodily in-
jury to her.”113 

8.  Utah (1876):

Sec.  142.  “Every  person  who  provides,  supplies,  or 
administers  to  any  pregnant  woman,  or  procures  any
such woman to take any medicine, drug, or substance, 
or  uses  or  employs  any  instrument  or  other  means 
whatever,  with  intent  thereby  to  procure  the  miscar-
riage of such woman, unless the same is necessary to
preserve her life, is punishable by imprisonment in the 
penitentiary  not  less  than  two  nor  more  than  ten 
years.”114 

9.  North Dakota (1877):

Sec.  337.  “Every  person  who  administers  to  any 
pregnant  woman,  or  who  prescribes  for  any  such
woman, or advises or procures any such woman to take 
any  medicine,  drug  or  substance,  or  uses  or  employs 

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113 1869 Terr. of Wyo. Gen. Laws p. 104 (emphasis added).  Wyoming 

became a State in 1889.  See 26 Stat. 222–226. 

114 Terr.  of  Utah  Comp.  Laws  §1972  (1876)  (emphasis  added).    Utah 
became a State in 1896.  See Presidential Proclamation No. 9, 29 Stat. 
876–877.