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Opinion of the Court

any term not exceeding seven years, or both.^[1]

1. California (1850):

   And every person who shall administer or cause to be administered or taken, any medical substances, 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 State 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.^[2]

2. Texas (1854):

   If any person, with the intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman being with child, unlawfully and maliciously shall administer to her or cause to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing, or shall use any instrument or any means whatever, with like intent, every such offender, and every person counseling or aiding or abetting such offender, shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary not exceeding ten years.^[3]

3. Louisiana (1856):

   Whoever shall feloniously administer or cause to be administered any drug, potion, or any other thing to any woman, for the purpose of procuring a premature de-

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1. Act of Mar. 1, 1849, 1849 N.J. Laws 266-267 (emphasis added)
2. Cal. Sess. Stats. ch. 99, § 45 (1849-1850) (emphasis added).
3. Act of Feb. 9, 1854, § 1, 1854 Tex. Gen. Laws 58 (emphasis added).