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106  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix B to opinion of the Court 

any instrument, or other means whatever with intent 
thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, un-
less the same is necessary to preserve her life, is pun-
ishable  by  imprisonment  in  the  territorial  prison  not
exceeding three years, or in a county jail not exceeding 
one year.”115 

10.  South Dakota (1877): Same as North Dakota. 

11.  Oklahoma (1890): 

Sec.  2187.  “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
any instrument, or other means whatever, with intent 
thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, un-
less the same is necessary to preserve her life, is pun-
ishable by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not
exceeding three years, or in a county jail not exceeding 
one year.”116 

12.  Alaska (1899):

Sec.  8.  “That  if  any  person  shall  administer  to  any 
woman  pregnant  with  a  child  any  medicine,  drug,  or 
substance  whatever,  or  shall  use  any  instrument  or 
other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child,
unless the same shall be necessary to preserve the life 
of such mother, such person shall, in case the death of 
such child or mother be thereby produced, be deemed 

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115 Dakota Penal Code §337 (1877) (codified at N. D. Rev. Code §7177 
(1895)), and S. D. Rev. Penal Code Ann. §337 (1883).  North and South 
Dakota became States in 1889.  See Presidential Proclamation No. 5, 26 
Stat. 1548–1551. 

116 Okla.  Stat.  §2187  (1890)  (emphasis  added).    Oklahoma  became  a 
State in 1907.  See Presidential Proclamation of Nov. 16, 1907, 35 Stat. 
2160–2161.