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Cite as:  597 U. S. ____ (2022) 

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Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

35.  South Carolina (1883):

Sec. 1.  “That any person who shall administer to any 
woman with child, or prescribe for any such woman, or 
suggest to or advise or procure her to take, any medi-
cine, substance, drug or thing whatever, or who shall 
use or employ, or advise the use or employment of, any 
instrument or other means of force whatever, with in-
tent  thereby  to  cause  or  procure  the  miscarriage  or
abortion or premature labor of any such woman, unless 
the same shall have been necessary to preserve her life,
or the life of such child, shall, in case the death of such 
child  or  of  such  woman  results  in  whole  or  in  part
therefrom, be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon con-
viction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in 
the Penitentiary for a term not more than twenty years 
nor less than five years.” 

Sec. 2.  “That any person who shall administer to any 
woman  with  child,  or  prescribe  or  procure  or  provide
for  any  such  woman,  or  advise  or  procure  any  such 
woman to take, any medicine, drug, substance or thing
whatever, or shall use or employ or advise the use or
employment of, any instrument or other means of force
whatever, with intent thereby to cause or procure the 
miscarriage or abortion or premature labor of any such 
woman, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by 
imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a term not more 
than five years, or by fine not more than five thousand
dollars, or by such fine and imprisonment both, at the
discretion of the Court; but no conviction shall be had 
under the provisions of Section 1 or 2 of this Act upon 
the uncorroborated evidence of such woman.”104 

36.  Kentucky (1910):

Sec.  1.  “It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  pre-
scribe or administer to any pregnant woman, or to any 

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104 1883 S. C. Acts pp. 547–548 (emphasis added).