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Opinion of the Court

exceeding one thousand ($1000) dollars, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one (1) nor more than five (5) years; provided, that this section shall not apply to any abortion produced by any regular practicing physician, for the purpose of saving the mother's life.^[1]

1. Georgia (1876):

   Sec. 2. That every person who shall administer to any woman pregnant with a 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 mother be thereby produced, be declared guilty of an assault with intent to murder.

   Sec. 3. That any person who shall wilfully administer to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug or substance, or anything whatever, or shall employ any instrument or means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage or abortion of any such woman, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such woman, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for that purpose, shall, upon conviction, be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code of Georgia.^[2]

2. North Carolina (1881):

   Sec. 1. That every person who shall wilfully administer to any woman either pregnant or quick with child, or

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1. Act of Nov. 8, 1875, no. 4, § 1, 1875 Ark. Acts 5-6 (emphasis added).
2. Act of Feb. 25, 1876, ch. 130, 1876 Ga. Laws 113 (emphasis added).