Robinson v. Parrish

Weltner, Justice.

We have received from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit the following certified questions:

“1. Whether the Georgia Voluntary Sterilization Act, OCGA § 31-20-2 [Code Ann. § 84-932], requires a physician to disclose any possible risks and complications associated with a sterilization procedure before a patient can validly consent to that procedure?

“2. If the answer to Question 1 is in the affirmative, are Appellants nonetheless conclusively bound by consents such as were executed in the circumstances of the present case where those documents were merely…