...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...advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purposes, shall in case the death of such child or of such mother, be thereby produced, be deemed guilty...

...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...advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purposes, shall in case the death of such child or of such mother, be thereby produced, be deemed guilty...

...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...advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purposes, shall in case the death of such child or of such mother, be thereby produced, be deemed guilty...

...any instrument or ol means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless the same shall have b necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have been advised by physicians to be necessary for such purpose, shall, in case the death of such chile of such mother...

...Instrument or other means, with intent thereby to destroy such child, unless the fame shall have heen necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or shall have been advised bv two physicians to be necessary for such purpose, shall, in case the death of such child or mother...

...criminal liability where the abortion "shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such woman, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for such purpose.""2 The exemption is extremely stringent. The child's life was considered so precious, that...

...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 :hat purpose, shall, upon conviction, be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised •Code...

...miscarriage 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 by imprisonment in a county jail no more than one...

...thereby to destroy such child, unless the same is necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or was advised by two. physicians to be necessary for such purpose, shall, in case the death of such child or of such mother State of Minnesota v. Mclntyre. is thereby produced, he guilty...

...abortion. These were that the abortion "shall have been necessary to preserve the life" of the woman "or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for that purpose."26 In the 1840s, Americans became acutely concerned with abortion, the incidence of which...