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Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

ing five hundred dollars, or imprisonment at hard la-
bour,  for  any  term  not  exceeding  seven  years,  or 
both.”81 

14.  California (1850):

Sec. 45.  “And every person who shall administer or
cause  to  be  administered  or  taken,  any  medical  sub-
stances,  or  shall  use  or  cause  to  be  used  any  instru-
ments whatever, with the intention to procure the mis-
carriage of any woman then being with child, and shall 
be thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by impris-
onment in the State Prison for a term not less than two 
years, nor more than five years: Provided, that no phy-
sician shall be affected by the last clause of this section,
who, in the discharge of his professional duties, deems 
it necessary to produce the miscarriage of any woman 
in order to save her life.”82 

15.  Texas (1854):

Sec. 1.  “If any person, with the intent to procure the
miscarriage of any woman being with child, unlawfully
and maliciously shall administer to her or cause to be
taken by her any poison or other noxious thing, or shall
use any instrument or any means whatever, with like
intent, every such offender, and every person counsel-
ling or aiding or abetting such offender, shall be pun-
ished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary 
not exceeding ten years.”83 

16.  Louisiana (1856):

Sec.  24.  “Whoever  shall  feloniously  administer  or
cause to be administered any drug, potion, or any other 
thing  to  any  woman,  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  a
premature  delivery,  and  whoever  shall  administer  or 

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81 1849 N. J. Laws pp. 266–267 (emphasis added). 
82 1850 Cal. Stats. p. 233 (emphasis added and deleted). 
83 1854 Tex. Gen. Laws p. 58 (emphasis added).