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86  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding one 
thousand  dollars,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprison-
ment at the discretion of the Court.” 

Sec.  2.  “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 means whatever, with intent thereby to
destroy  such  child,  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  such  purpose,  shall,  upon  conviction,  be  punished 
by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by con-
finement to hard labor not less than one year, nor more 
than ten years.”80 

13.  New Jersey (1849):

“That if any person or persons, maliciously or with-
out lawful justification, with intent to cause and pro-
cure  the  miscarriage  of  a  woman  then  pregnant  with 
child, shall administer to her, prescribe for her, or ad-
vise or direct her to take or swallow any poison, drug, 
medicine,  or  noxious  thing;  and  if  any  person  or  per-
sons maliciously, and without lawful justification, shall
use any instrument or means whatever, with the like 
intent;  and  every  person,  with  the  like  intent,  know-
ingly  aiding  and  assisting  such  offender  or  offenders,
shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a high 
misdemeanor;  and  if  the  woman  die  in  consequence 
thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  fine,  not  exceeding  one
thousand dollars, or imprisonment at hard labour for
any term not exceeding fifteen years, or both; and if the
woman  doth  not  die  in  consequence  thereof,  such  of-
fender shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and be punished by fine, not exceed-

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80 1849 N. H. Laws p. 708 (emphasis added).