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98  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

the miscarriage of any pregnant woman or women sup-
posed by such person to be pregnant, unless the same 
be  necessary  to  preserve  her  life,  shall  administer  to
her, advise, or prescribe for her, or cause to be taken by 
her any poison, drug, medicine, or other noxious thing,
or  shall  use  any  instrument  or  other  means  whatso-
ever, or shall aid, assist, or counsel any person so in-
tending to procure a miscarriage, whether said miscar-
riage be accomplished or not, shall be guilty of a felony,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than
one  hundred  dollars  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dol-
lars  and  be  imprisoned  for  a  term  not  exceeding  five
years nor less than one year.”102 

34.  Tennessee (1883): 

Sec.  1.  “That  every  person  who  shall  administer  to 
any woman pregnant with child, whether such child be 
quick  or  not,  any  medicine,  drug  or  substance  what-
ever, or shall use or employ any instrument, or other 
means whatever with intent to destroy such child, and 
shall thereby destroy such child before its birth, unless 
the same shall have been done with a view to preserve 
the life of the mother, shall be punished by imprison-
ment  in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than  one  nor  more
than five years.” 

Sec. 2.  “Every person who shall administer any sub-
stance with the intention to procure the miscarriage of 
a woman then being with child, or shall use or employ 
any instrument or other means with such intent, un-
less the same shall have been done with a view to pre-
serve the life of such mother, shall be punished by im-
prisonment  in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than  one  nor 
more than three years.”103 

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102 1883 Del. Laws, ch. 226 (emphasis added). 
103 1883 Tenn. Acts pp. 188–189 (emphasis added).