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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 

knowingly  cause  any  woman  pregnant  with  child  to 
abort or miscarry, or attempts to procure or produce an 
abortion or miscarriage, unless the same were done as 
necessary for the preservation of the mother’s life, shall
be  imprisoned  in  the  state  penitentiary  no  less  than
one  (1)  year,  nor  more  than  ten  (10)  years;  or  if  the 
death of the mother results therefrom, the person pro-
curing, causing, or attempting to procure or cause the 
abortion or miscarriage shall be guilty of murder.” 

Sec. 2.  “No act prohibited in section 1 hereof shall be 
considered  as  necessary  for  the  preservation  of  the
mother’s life unless upon the prior advice, in writing, 
of two reputable licensed physicians.” 

Sec. 3.  “The license of any physician or nurse shall 
be  automatically  revoked  upon  conviction  under  the
provisions of this act.”106 

B 

This appendix contains statutes criminalizing abortion at 
all stages in each of the Territories that became States and 
in the District of Columbia.  The statutes appear in chron-
ological order of enactment. 

1.  Hawaii (1850): 

Sec. 1.  “Whoever maliciously, without lawful justifi-
cation, administers, or causes or procures to be admin-
istered  any  poison  or  noxious  thing  to  a  woman  then 
with child, in order to produce her mis-carriage, or ma-
liciously uses any instrument or other means with like
intent, shall, if such woman be then quick with child, 
be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars 
and  imprisonment  at  hard  labor  not  more  than  five 
years.  And if she be then not quick with child, shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, 

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106 1952 Miss. Laws p. 289 (codified at Miss. Code Ann. §2223 (1956) 

(emphasis added)).