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DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Opinion of the Court
- attempted by, or under advice of a physician or surgeon, with intent to save the life of such woman, or to prevent serious and permanent bodily injury to her.[1]
- Utah (1876):
- Every person who provides, supplies, or administers to any pregnant woman, or procures any such woman to take any medicine, drug, or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years.[2]
- North Dakota (1877):
- Every person who administers to any pregnant woman, or who prescribes for any such woman, or advises or procures any such woman to take any medicine, drug or substance, or uses or employs any instrument, or other means whatever with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding three years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year.[3]
- South Dakota (1877): Same as North Dakota.
- ↑ 1869 Wyo. (Terr.) Laws ch. 3, §25, at 104 (emphasis added). Wyoming became a State in 1889. See 26 Stat. 222-226.
- ↑ Utah Comp. Laws tit. IX, ch. III, §142 (1876) (emphasis added). Utah became a State in 1896. See 29 Stat. 876-877.
- ↑ Dak. Pen. Code § 337, at 458-459 (1877) (codified at N.D. Rev. Code §7177, at 1271 (1895), and S.D. Ann. Stat. §7797 (1899). North and South Dakota became States in 1889. See 26 Stat. 1548-1551.
