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96  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

one year, or by fine not more than five thousand dollars 
nor less than five hundred dollars, or by such fine and 
imprisonment both, at the discretion of the court.”98 

30.  Arkansas (1875): 

Sec. 1.  “That it shall be unlawful for any one to ad-
minister  or  prescribe  any  medicine  or  drugs  to  any 
woman with child, with intent to produce an abortion, 
or premature delivery of any foetus before the period of 
quickening,  or  to  produce  or  attempt  to  produce  such 
abortion by any other means; and any person offending 
against the provision of this section, shall be fined in 
any  sum  not  exceeding  one  thousand  ($1000)  dollars,
and  imprisoned  in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than  one 
(1) nor more than five (5) years; provided, that this sec-
tion  shall  not  apply  to  any  abortion  produced  by  any 
regular practicing physician, for the purpose of saving 
the mother’s life.”99 

31.  Georgia (1876):

Sec.  2.  “That  every  person  who  shall  administer  to 
any woman pregnant with a child, any medicine, drug,
or substance whatever, or shall use or employ any in-
strument  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 mother
be  thereby  produced,  be  declared  guilty  of  an  assault 
with intent to murder.” 

Sec. 3.  “That any person who shall wilfully adminis-
ter to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug or sub-
stance, or anything whatever, or shall employ any in-
strument  or  means  whatever,  with  intent  thereby  to 

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98 1873 Minn. Laws pp. 117–118 (emphasis added). 
99 1875 Ark. Acts p. 5 (emphasis added and deleted).