2021 Georgia Code
Title 31 - Health
Chapter 9 - Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment
§ 31-9-7. Right of Persons Who Are at Least 18 Years of Age to Refuse to Consent to Treatment
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to abridge any right of a person 18 years of age or over to refuse to consent to medical and surgical treatment as to his own person.
(Code 1933, § 88-2907, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 438, § 1.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 59 Am. Jur. 2d, Parent and Child, § 65.
C.J.S.- 67A C.J.S., Parent and Child, §§ 38, 40, 41, 46 et seq.
ALR.
- Consent as condition of right to perform surgical operation, 76 A.L.R. 562; 139 A.L.R. 1370.
Patient's right to refuse treatment allegedly necessary to sustain life, 93 A.L.R.3d 67.
Judicial power to order discontinuance of life-sustaining treatment, 48 A.L.R.4th 67.
Power of court or other public agency to order medical treatment over parental religious objections for child whose life is not immediately endangered, 21 A.L.R.5th 248.