59-7-2.8. Artificial nutrition and hydration for pregnant woman--Certification by physicians.
Notwithstanding the designation of a health care attorney-in-fact or agent, life-sustaining treatment and artificial nutrition and hydration shall be provided to a pregnant woman unless, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, as certified on the woman's medical chart by the attending physician and one other physician who has examined the woman, such procedures will not maintain the woman in such a way as to permit the continuing development and live birth of the unborn child or will be physically harmful to the woman or prolong severe pain which cannot be alleviated by medication.
Source: SL 1990, ch 412, ยง5.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 07 - Termination Of Agency
Section 59-7-1 - Acts constituting termination.
Section 59-7-2 - Termination where power of agent not coupled with an interest.
Section 59-7-2.1 - Principal--Designation--Healthcare.
Section 59-7-2.4 - Nomination--Health care--Guardian--Conservator.
Section 59-7-2.5 - Health care decisions by agent.
Section 59-7-2.6 - Physician's determination of principal's decisional capacity.
Section 59-7-11 - Appointment of guardian terminates power of attorney.