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Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

lars, and undergo an imprisonment, by separate or sol-
itary  confinement  at  labor,  not  exceeding  three 
years.”89 

22.  Rhode Island (1861):

Sec. 1.  “Every person who shall be convicted of wil-
fully administering to any pregnant woman, or to any 
woman  supposed  by  such  person  to  be  pregnant,  any-
thing whatever, or shall employ any means whatever,
with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such 
woman, unless the same is necessary to preserve her 
life,  shall  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  one  year,  or 
fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.”90 

23.  Nevada (1861):

Sec.  42.  “[E]very  person  who  shall  administer,  or 
cause to be administered or taken, any medicinal sub-
stance,  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  Territorial  prison,  for  a  term  not  less 
than  two  years,  nor  more  than  five  years;  provided,
that no physician 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.”91 

24.  West Virginia (1863): 
West  Virginia’s  Constitution  adopted  the  laws  of  Virginia 
when it became its own State: 

“Such parts of the common law and of the laws of the
State of Virginia as are in force within the boundaries 

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89 1861 Pa. Laws pp. 404–405 (emphasis added). 
90 R. I. Acts & Resolves p. 133 (emphasis added). 
91 1861 Nev. Laws p. 63 (emphasis added and deleted).