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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 

cause the death of such person, and being thereof duly 
convicted, shall be punished by confinement in the pen-
itentiary for a term not less than one year and not more 
than seven years.  And every person who shall admin-
ister  or  cause  to  be  administered  or  taken,  any  such
poison, substance or liquid, with the intention to pro-
cure  the  miscarriage  of  any  woman  then  being  with 
child, and shall thereof be duly convicted, shall be im-
prisoned  for  a  term  not  exceeding  three  years  in  the
penitentiary,  and  fined  in  a  sum  not  exceeding  one
thousand dollars.”95 

27.  Maryland (1868): 

Sec. 2.  “And be it enacted, That any person who shall 
knowingly advertise, print, publish, distribute or circu-
late, or knowingly cause to be advertised, printed, pub-
lished, distributed or circulated, any pamphlet, printed
paper, book, newspaper notice, advertisement or refer-
ence containing words or language, giving or conveying 
any  notice,  hint  or  reference  to  any  person,  or  to  the
name of any person real or fictitious, from whom; or to 
any place, house, shop or office, when any poison, drug, 
mixture, preparation, medicine or noxious thing, or any 
instrument or means whatever; for the purpose of pro-
ducing abortion, or who shall knowingly sell, or cause 
to be sold any such poison, drug, mixture, preparation,
medicine  or  noxious  thing  or  instrument  of  any  kind 
whatever; or where any advice, direction, information
or knowledge may be obtained for the purpose of caus-
ing the miscarriage or abortion of any woman pregnant 
with  child,  at  any  period  of  her  pregnancy,  or  shall 
knowingly sell or cause to be sold any medicine, or who 
shall  knowingly  use  or  cause  to  be  used  any  means 

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95 Neb. Rev. Stat., Tit. 4, ch. 4, §42 (1866) (emphasis added); see also 
Neb. Gen. Stat., ch. 58, §§6, 39 (1873) (expanding criminal liability for 
abortions by other means, including instruments).