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102  DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION 

Opinion of the Court 
Appendix B to opinion of the Court 

and  imprisonment  at  hard  labor  not  more  than  two
years.” 

Sec.  2.  “Where  means  of  causing abortion  are  used
for the purpose of saving the life of the woman, the sur-
geon or other person using such means is lawfully jus-
tified.”107 

2.  Washington (1854): 

Sec. 37.  “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 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, shall, in case 
the  death  of  such  child  or  of  such  mother  be  thereby 
produced,  on  conviction  thereof,  be  imprisoned  in  the 
penitentiary not more than twenty years, nor less than 
one year.” 

Sec. 38.  “Every person who shall administer to any 
pregnant woman, or to any woman who he supposes to 
be  pregnant,  any  medicine,  drug,  or  substance  what-
ever, or shall use or employ any instrument, or other 
means,  thereby  to  procure  the  miscarriage  of  such 
woman,  unless  the  same  is  necessary  to  preserve  her 
life,  shall  on  conviction  thereof,  be  imprisoned  in  the 
penitentiary not more than five years, nor less than one 
year, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than
twelve months, nor less than one month, and be fined 
in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.”108 

3.  Colorado (1861): 
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107 Haw. Penal Code, ch. 12, §§1–2 (1850) (emphasis added).  Hawaii 
became  a  State  in  1959.    See  Presidential  Proclamation  No.  3309,  73 
Stat. c74–c75. 

108 Terr. of Wash. Stat., ch. 2, §§37–38, p. 81 (1854) (emphasis added).
Washington  became  a  State  in  1889.  See  Presidential  Proclamation 
No. 8, 26 Stat. 1552–1553.