Relating to: proclaiming April 20 to 26 as 2025 National Infertility Awareness Week in Wisconsin.
Senate Joint Resolution 56 proclaims April 20 to 26, 2025, as National Infertility Awareness Week in Wisconsin. The resolution highlights that infertility affects one in six individuals and recognizes it as a disease, impacting women and men equally. It affirms the legal right of patients with infertility to undergo treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility options. The resolution also rejects the concept of embryonic or fetal "personhood" and encourages participation with RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association.
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Introduction
May 2025
Committee Review
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Governor
Introduced May 20, 2025
Last action Mar 23, 2026
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Amendments
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Mar 23, 2026
Amended
Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
upper
May 20, 2025
Committee
Read and referred to Committee on Senate Organization
upper
May 20, 2025
Introduced
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
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Chris Larson
DDemocratic
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Dianne Hesselbein
DDemocratic
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Dora Drake
DDemocratic
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Jamie Wall
DDemocratic
P
Jeff Smith
DDemocratic
P
Jodi Habush Sinykin
DDemocratic
P
Kelda Roys
DDemocratic
P
Kristin Dassler-Alfheim
DDemocratic
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LaTonya Johnson
DDemocratic
P
Mark Spreitzer
DDemocratic
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Melissa Ratcliff
DDemocratic
P
Sarah Keyeski
DDemocratic
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Tim Carpenter
DDemocratic
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