HEALTH Living Wills: Allow Pregnant Women and Patients in a Coma or Persistent Vegetative State to Have Life-Sustaining Measures Withheld or Withdrawn

Authors

Grantland G. King III

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

The act expands the living wills provisions of the Georgia Code to allow the declarant of a living will to authorize the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining measures in the event that the declarant subsequently enters into a coma or persistent vegetative state. The Act also allows life-sustaining measures to be withheld or withdrawn from a pregnant woman as long as her fetus is not viable when the question arises as to whether to withhold or withdraw such life-sustaining measures. The Act further allows health care facilities to provide patients with forms for living wills in accordance with federal law.

Recommended Citation

Grantland G. King III, HEALTH Living Wills: Allow Pregnant Women and Patients in a Coma or Persistent Vegetative State to Have Life-Sustaining Measures Withheld or Withdrawn, 9 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (1992).
Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol9/iss1/10