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82  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix A to opinion of the Court 

thereby to procure the miscarriage of any such woman, 
unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve
the life of such woman, shall upon conviction be pun-
ished by imprisonment in the county jail any term of
[time]  not  exceeding  twelve  months  and  be  fined  any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.”73 

6.  Maine (1840):

Sec. 13.  “Every person, who shall administer to any 
woman  pregnant  with  child,  whether  such  child  be 
quick  or  not,  any  medicine,  drug  or  substance  what-
ever,  or  shall  use  or  employ  any  instrument  or  other 
means whatever, with intent to destroy such child, and
shall thereby destroy such child before its birth, unless 
the same shall have been done as necessary to preserve
the life of the mother, shall be punished by imprison-
ment in the state prison, not more than five years, or
by  fine,  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars,  and  im-
prisonment in the county jail, not more than one year.” 
Sec. 14.  “Every person, who shall administer to any 
woman, pregnant with child, whether such child shall 
be quick or not, any medicine, drug or substance what-
ever,  or  shall  use  or  employ  any  instrument  or  other 
means  whatever,  with  intent  thereby  to  procure  the
miscarriage of such woman, unless the same shall have 
been  done,  as  necessary  to  preserve  her  life,  shall  be 
punished by imprisonment in the county jail, not more
than one year, or by fine, not exceeding one thousand
dollars.”74 

7.  Alabama (1841):

Sec. 2.  “Every person who shall wilfully administer 
to  any  pregnant  woman  any  medicines,  drugs,  sub-
stance or thing whatever, or shall use and employ any 

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73 1835 Ind. Laws p. 66 (emphasis added). 
74 Me. Rev. Stat., Tit. 12, ch. 160, §§13–14 (1840) (emphasis added).