MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services
By: Representative Arnold
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-3-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT THE MANUFACTURE OR MAIL ORDER IN THIS STATE OF MEDICINES THAT CAUSE ANY ABORTION THAT IS PROHIBITED BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 97-3-5, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
97-3-5. A person who manufactures,
markets, mails, distributes, transports, delivers, sells, lends, gives
away, or in any manner exhibits, or offers to manufacture,
market, mail, distribute, transport, deliver, sell, lend, or give away,
or has in his or her possession with intent to manufacture, market, mail,
distribute, transport, deliver, sell, lend, or give away, or advertises or
offers for sale, loan or distribution any instrument or article, or any drug or
medicine, for causing * * *
an abortion that is prohibited in this state; or who writes or
prints, or causes to be written or printed, a card, circular, pamphlet,
advertisement, or notice of any kind, or gives information orally, stating
when, where, how, of whom, or by what means such instrument, article or
medicine can be purchased or obtained, or who manufactures any such instrument,
article or medicine, is guilty of a * * * felony, and, * * * upon conviction, shall be punished by
a fine not less than * * * One Thousand
Dollars ($1,000.00) nor more than * * * Ten Thousand Dollars
($10,000.00), and by imprisonment in the * * * custody
of the Department of Corrections for not less than two (2) years nor more than five
(5) years, or both.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2024.