2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-3118/1
CMH:skw
May 20, 2025 - Introduced by Senators Roys, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff, Smith, Spreitzer and Wall, cosponsored by Representatives Emerson, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, J. Jacobson, Joers, Mayadev, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Phelps, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Subeck and Vining. Referred to Committee on Senate Organization.
SJR56,1,2
1Relating to: proclaiming April 20 to 26 as 2025 National Infertility Awareness
2Week in Wisconsin. SJR56,1,43Whereas, according to the World Health Organization, one in six individuals 4have difficulty getting pregnant or sustaining a pregnancy; and SJR56,1,65Whereas, the World Health Organization and American Medical Association 6define infertility as a disease; and SJR56,1,97Whereas, infertility affects women and men equally and does not discriminate 8on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, or socioeconomic 9level; and SJR56,1,1010Whereas, all individuals should have access to family-building options; and SJR56,1,1311Whereas, options for building a family include adoption and medical 12treatment for infertility, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and third-party 13reproduction; and SJR56,2,214Whereas, cost and lack of insurance coverage are barriers that many
1individuals in Wisconsin face in accessing the family-building options they need; 2and SJR56,2,43Whereas, raising awareness of infertility and the barriers faced by the family-4building community is the first step to removing these barriers; and SJR56,2,85Whereas, antiabortion legal strategies to confer legal “personhood” on 6fertilized eggs, zygotes, embryos, and fetuses are mounting across the country and 7threaten the ability of individuals to access birth control as well as IVF and other 8fertility treatments; now, therefore, be it SJR56,2,159Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the members of 10the Wisconsin Legislature hereby affirm the legal right of patients with infertility 11to undergo IVF and other fertility treatments; reject the notion of embryonic or fetal 12“personhood”; join RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association and the 13dedicated volunteers, health care professionals, and members of the infertility and 14family-building community by participating in this promotion; and proclaim April 1520 to 26, 2025, as National Infertility Awareness Week in Wisconsin.
