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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 

a profound moral question.  The Constitution does not pro-
hibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibit-
ing abortion.  Roe and Casey arrogated that authority.  We 
now overrule those decisions and return that authority to
the people and their elected representatives. 

The  judgment  of  the  Fifth  Circuit  is  reversed,  and  the
case  is  remanded  for  further  proceedings  consistent  with
this opinion. 

It is so ordered. 

APPENDICES 
A 

This appendix contains statutes criminalizing abortion at 
all stages of pregnancy in the States existing in 1868.  The 
statutes appear in chronological order. 

1.  Missouri (1825):

Sec.  12.  “That  every  person  who  shall  wilfully  and 
maliciously administer or cause to be administered to 
or taken by any person, any poison, or other noxious,
poisonous  or  destructive  substance  or  liquid,  with  an
intention  to  harm  him  or  her  thereby  to  murder,  or 
thereby  to  cause  or  procure  the  miscarriage  of  any 
woman then being with child, and shall thereof be duly
convicted,  shall  suffer  imprisonment  not  exceeding
seven years, and be fined not exceeding three thousand 
dollars.”69 

2.  Illinois (1827):

Sec. 46.  “Every person who shall wilfully and mali-
ciously administer, or cause to be administered to, or
taken  by  any  person,  any  poison,  or  other  noxious  or 

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69 1825 Mo. Laws p. 283 (emphasis added); see also, Mo. Rev. Stat., Art. 
II, §§10, 36 (1835) (extending liability to abortions performed by instru-
ment and establishing differential penalties for pre- and post-quickening 
abortion) (emphasis added).