119-s987

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 987 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 987

To prohibit the Federal Government from conducting, funding, approving, 
or otherwise supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that 
 is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion, and to prohibit the 
 solicitation or knowing acquisition, receipt, or acceptance of a 
 donation of such tissue.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 12, 2025

Mrs. Hyde-Smith (for herself, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
Hawley, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Daines, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Cramer) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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 A BILL

To prohibit the Federal Government from conducting, funding, approving, 
or otherwise supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that 
 is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion, and to prohibit the 
 solicitation or knowing acquisition, receipt, or acceptance of a 
 donation of such tissue.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Life and Integrity in 
Research Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. NO RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN FETAL TISSUE OBTAINED PURSUANT TO 
 AN INDUCED ABORTION.

    (a) In General.--

    (1) In general.--No Federal department, agency, or office 
 may conduct, fund, approve, or otherwise support any research 
 involving human fetal tissue that is obtained pursuant to an 
 induced abortion.

    (2) Development of new, ethical cell lines.--Subsection

    (a) does not limit the authority of the head of any Federal 
 department, agency, or office, to develop or support the 
 development of new, high-efficiency cell lines, including for 
 the production of vaccines and genetic vectors, so long as the 
 cell lines are not derived from human fetal tissue that is 
 obtained pursuant to an induced abortion.

    (3) Research involving human fetal tissue obtained after a 
 miscarriage or stillbirth permitted.--Any research of any 
 Federal department, agency, or office on human fetal tissue 
 obtained after a miscarriage or stillbirth shall be conducted 
 or supported in accordance with 

section 498A of the Public 
 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).

    (4) === Definition. ===
-In this subsection, the term ``human fetal 
 tissue'' has the meaning given such term in 

section 498A

    (g) of 
 the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g-1

    (g) ).

    (b) Amendments to the PHSA Limiting Human Fetal Tissue Research to 
Tissue Obtained After a Miscarriage or Stillbirth.--

Section 498A of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g-1) is amended--

    (1) in the section heading, by striking ``transplantation 
 of fetal tissue'' and inserting ``human fetal tissue obtained 
 after a miscarriage or stillbirth'';

    (2) by amending subsection

    (a) to read as follows:
 ``

    (a) Establishment of Program.--The Secretary may conduct or 
support research on human fetal tissue obtained after a miscarriage or 
a stillbirth.'';

    (3) in subsection

    (b) --
        (A) in paragraph

    (1)
        (B) , by inserting ``if the 
 human fetal tissue is intended for transplantation,'' 
 before ``the donation''; and
        (B) in paragraph

    (2) --
            (i) by striking subparagraph
        (A) ; and
            (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs
        (B) and
            (C) as subparagraphs
        (A) and
        (B) , respectively;

    (4) in subsection
            (c) (1)
        (B) , by striking ``pursuant to a 
 spontaneous or induced abortion or pursuant to'' and inserting 
 ``after a miscarriage or''; and

    (5) by amending subsection

    (g) to read as follows:
 ``

    (g) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:
 ``

    (1) Human fetal tissue.--The term `human fetal tissue' 
 means tissue or cells obtained from a dead unborn child 
 pursuant to an induced abortion, a miscarriage, or a 
 stillbirth.
 ``

    (2) Miscarriage.--The term `miscarriage' means the 
 involuntary death of an unborn child who was carried in the 
 womb for a period of less than 20 weeks.
 ``

    (3) Stillbirth.--The term `stillbirth' means the 
 involuntary death of an unborn child who was carried in the 
 womb for a period of 20 weeks or more.
 ``

    (4) Unborn child.---The term `unborn child' has the 
 meaning given such term in 

section 1841
            (d) of title 18, United 
 States Code.''.
            (c) Conforming Repeal.--

Section 113 of the National Institutes of 
Health Revitalization Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 289g-1 note) is repealed.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST SOLICITATION OR KNOWING ACQUISITION, 
 RECEIPT, OR ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF HUMAN FETAL 
 TISSUE KNOWING THAT THE TISSUE WAS OBTAINED PURSUANT TO 
 AN INDUCED ABORTION.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph

    (1) of 

section 498B
            (c) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g-2
            (c) ) is amended to read as follows:
 ``

    (1) solicit or knowingly acquire, receive, or accept a 
 donation (excluding any transfer for purposes of autopsy or 
 burial) of human fetal tissue knowing that--
 ``
        (A) a human pregnancy was deliberately initiated 
 to provide such tissue; or
 ``
        (B) the tissue was obtained pursuant to an 
 induced abortion; or''.

    (b) Conforming Changes.--

Section 498B of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 289g-2) is amended--

    (1) by striking subsection

    (b) ;

    (2) by redesignating subsections
            (c) through

    (e) as 
 subsections

    (b) through
            (d) , respectively; and

    (3) in subsection
            (c) , as redesignated--
        (A) in paragraph

    (1) , by striking ``

    (a) ,

    (b) , or
            (c) '' and inserting ``

    (a) or

    (b) ''; and
        (B) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking ``or

    (b)

    (3) ''.
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