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80  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

destructive  substance  or  liquid,  with  an  intention  to 
cause the death of such person, or to procure the mis-
carriage of any woman, then being with child, and shall 
thereof  be  duly  convicted,  shall  be  imprisoned  for  a
term not exceeding three years, and be fined in a sum
not exceeding one thousand dollars.” 70 

3.  New York (1828):

Sec.  9.  “Every  person  who  shall  administer  to  any 
woman  pregnant  with  a  quick  child,  any  medicine,
drug or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any 
instrument or other means, with intent thereby to de-
stroy such child, unless the same shall have been nec-
essary to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have 
been advised by two physicians to be necessary for such 
purpose, shall, in case the death of such child or of such 
mother be thereby produced, be deemed guilty of man-
slaughter in the second degree.” 

Sec. 21.  “Every person who shall willfully adminis-
ter to any pregnant  woman, any  medicine, drug, sub-
stance  or  thing  whatever,  or  shall  use  or  employ  any 
instrument  of  other  means  whatever,  with  intent 
thereby to procure the miscarriage of any such woman, 
unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve
the life of such woman, or shall have been advised by 
two physicians to be necessary for that purpose; shall,
upon  conviction,  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  a
county jail not more than one year, or by fine not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.”71 

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70 Ill.  Rev.  Code  §46  (1827)  (emphasis  added);  see  also  Ill.  Rev.  Code 
§46 (1833) (same); 1867 Ill. Laws p. 89 (extending liability to abortions
“by means of any instrument[s]” and raising penalties to imprisonment
“not less than two nor more than ten years”). 

71 N. Y. Rev. Stat., pt. 4, ch. 1, Tit. 2, §9 (emphasis added); Tit. 6, §21