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lars, and undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceeding three years."[1]
22. Rhode Island (1861):
Sec. 1. "Every person who shall be convicted of wilfully administering to any pregnant woman, or to any woman supposed by such person to be pregnant, anything whatever, or shall employ any means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars."[2]
23. Nevada (1861):
Sec. 42. "[E]very person who shall administer, or cause to be administered or taken, any medicinal substance, or shall use, or cause to be used, any instruments whatever, with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison, for a term not less than two years, nor more than five years; provided, that no physician shall be affected by the last clause of this section, who, in the discharge of his professional duties, deems it necessary to produce the miscarriage of any woman in order to save her life."[3]
24. West Virginia (1863):
West Virginia's Constitution adopted the laws of Virginia when it became its own State:
"Such parts of the common law and of the laws of the State of Virginia as are in force within the boundaries
