Sale, use, and final disposition of fetal body parts, reporting of sex and fetal anomaly following induced abortion, and providing a penalty. (FE)

The bill's prohibition does not apply to use of a fetal body part for diagnostic or remedial tests, procedures, or observations which have the sole purpose of determining the life or health of the unborn child in order to provide that information to the mother or preserving the life or health of the child, unborn child, or the child's mother.

The bill requires a physician who performs an induced abortion to arrange for final disposition by burial, interment, entombment, or cremation of the fetal body parts. A person who is acting exclusively in furtherance of final disposition of a fetal body part is not guilty of violating the prohibitions in the bill.

This bill requires a hospital, clinic, or other facility in which an induced abortion is performed to report additional information in its required annual report to the Department of Health Services. Under current law, the report must include, among other pieces of information, for each patient, the state, and county if Wisconsin, of residence; certain demographic information; the month and year in which the abortion was performed; the number of weeks since the patient's last menstrual period; whether the abortion was chemically or surgically induced or surgically induced following a failed chemical abortion; any resulting complications;

and certain information for abortions of an unborn child capable of experiencing pain. This bill adds to the information required in the report the sex of the aborted unborn child if the sex can be determined by visual inspection, whether the aborted unborn child had a fetal anomaly, and the nature of the fetal anomaly if the aborted unborn child had one. Under the bill, DHS must incorporate information reported regarding an aborted unborn child's fetal anomaly in the existing birth defect registry.