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DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Opinion of the Court
- Florida (1868):
- Ch. 1, Sec. 11. 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 destroy such child, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purpose, shall, in case the death of such child or of such mother be thereby produced, be deemed guilty of manslaughter in the second degree.
- Ch. VII, Sec. 9. Whoever, with intent to procure miscarriage of any woman, unlawfully administers to her, or advises, or prescribes for her, or causes to be taken by her, any poison, drug, medicine, or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means whatever with the like intent, or with like intent aids or assists therein, shall, if the woman does not die in consequence thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the State penittentiary not exceeding seven years, nor less than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.[1]
- Minnesota (1873):
- Sec. 1. That any person who shall administer to any woman with child, or prescribe for any such woman, or suggest to, or advise, or procure her to take any medicine, drug, substance or thing whatever, or who shall use or employ, or advise or suggest the use or employment of any instrument or other means or force what-
- ↑ Act of Aug. 6, 1868, ch. 1637, no. 13, ch. 3, § 11, ch. 8, § 9, 1868 Fla. Laws 64, 97 (emphasis added).
