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2020 Ohio Revised Code
Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile
Chapter 2133 | Modified Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act; Dnr Identification and Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders
Section 2133.06 | Patient to Make Decisions on Use of Life-Sustaining Treatment.
Universal Citation: Ohio Rev Code § 2133.06 (2020)
Effective: January 13, 2012
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly
(A) As long as a qualified patient is able to make informed decisions regarding the administration of life-sustaining treatment, the qualified patient may continue to do so.
(B) Life-sustaining treatment shall not be withheld or withdrawn from a declarant pursuant to a declaration if the declarant is pregnant and if the withholding or withdrawal of the treatment would terminate the pregnancy, unless the declarant's attending physician and one other physician who has examined the declarant determine, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty and in accordance with reasonable medical standards, that the fetus would not be born alive.
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