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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 9A. WOMAN’S RIGHT TO KNOW

31-9A-5. Requirements in case of medical emergency.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. (a)

    When a medical emergency compels the performance of an abortion, the physician shall inform the female prior to the abortion, if medically reasonable and prudent, of the medical indications supporting the physician’s judgment that an abortion is medically necessary to avert her death or that a 24 hour delay will create serious risk of substantial or irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.#

  2. (b)

    Any physician who complies with subsection (a) of this Code section shall not be held civilly liable to a patient for failure to obtain informed consent to an abortion.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 31-9A-5, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1450, § 6/HB 197.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, page 625; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.