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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced March 11, 2025 by Robert F. Onder · Last progress March 11, 2025
Stops the federal government from conducting, funding, approving, or supporting research that uses human fetal tissue obtained from an induced abortion. It still allows research using fetal tissue from a miscarriage or stillbirth under existing safeguards, and encourages development of new cell lines not derived from abortion.
Also bans soliciting or knowingly receiving donations of human fetal tissue when the tissue is known to come from an induced abortion or from a pregnancy started to provide such tissue, with exceptions only for autopsy or burial. It updates the Public Health Service Act to reflect these limits and repeals prior federal provisions that had allowed broader fetal tissue research.