Wisconsin
Wisconsin Statutes 253.09 Abortion refused; no liability; no
discrimination.
253.09(1) No hospital shall be required to admit any patient or to allow
the use of the hospital facilities for the purpose of performing a
sterilization procedure or removing a human embryo or fetus. A physician or
any other person who is a member of or associated with the staff of a
hospital, or any employee of a hospital in which such a procedure has been
authorized, who shall state in writing his or her objection to the
performance of or providing assistance to such a procedure on moral or
religious grounds shall not be required to participate in such medical
procedure, and the refusal of any such person to participate therein shall
not form the basis of any claim for damages on account of such refusal or
for any disciplinary or recriminatory action against such person.
253.09(2) No hospital or employee of any hospital shall be liable for any
civil damages resulting from a refusal to perform sterilization procedures
or remove a human embryo or fetus from a person, if such refusal is based on
religious or moral precepts.
253.09(3) No hospital, school or employer may discriminate against any
person with regard to admission, hiring or firing, tenure, term, condition
or privilege of employment, student status or staff status on the ground
that the person refuses to recommend, aid or perform procedures for
sterilization or the removal of a human embryo or fetus, if the refusal is
based on religious or moral precepts.
253.09(4) The receipt of any grant, contract, loan or loan guarantee
under any state or federal law does not authorize any court or any public
official or other public authority to require: 253.09(4)(a) (a) Such
individual to perform or assist in the performance of any sterilization
procedure or removal of a human embryo or fetus if the individual's
performance or assistance in the performance of such a procedure would be
contrary to the individual's religious beliefs or moral convictions; or
253.09(4)(b) (b) Such entity to:
(b)1. Make its facilities available for the
performance of any sterilization procedure or removal of a human embryo or
fetus if the performance of such a procedure in such facilities is
prohibited by the entity on the basis of religious beliefs or moral
convictions; or
(b)2. Provide any personnel for the performance or
assistance in the performance of any sterilization procedure or assistance
if the performance or assistance in the performance of such procedure or the
removal of a human embryo or fetus by such personnel would be contrary to
the religious beliefs or moral convictions of such personnel.
253.09 - ANNOT.History: 1973 c. 159; Stats. 1973 s. 140.275; 1973 c.
336 s. 54; Stats. 1973 s. 140.42; 1979 c. 34; 1993 a. 27 s. 222; Stats. 1993
s. 253.09; 1993 a. 482.
441.06(6)
(6) No person licensed as a registered nurse under this section is liable
for any civil damages resulting from his or her refusal to perform
sterilization procedures or to remove or aid in the removal of a human
embryo or fetus from a person, if the refusal is based on religious or moral
precepts.
441.06 - ANNOT. History: 1971 c. 125, 215; 1973 c. 159; 1975 c. 39, 199;
1977 c. 29, 164; 1979 c. 34, 162; 1987 a. 27, 264; 1991 a. 39.
448.03(5)
(5) Civil liability; certain medical procedures and reports.
448.03(5)(a)
(a) No person licensed or certified under this subchapter shall be liable
for any civil damages resulting from such person's refusal to perform
sterilization procedures or to remove or aid in the removal of a human
embryo or fetus from a person if such refusal is based on religious or moral
precepts.