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Prohibits federal departments, agencies, and offices from conducting, funding, approving, or supporting research that uses human fetal tissue obtained from an induced abortion. Allows development of alternative cell lines not derived from tissue from induced abortions and permits use of fetal tissue from miscarriages or stillbirths only under revised rules in the Public Health Service Act. Also bans soliciting or accepting fetal tissue donations when the donor knows the tissue came from an induced abortion or when a pregnancy was started for the purpose of providing tissue, with an exception for transfers that are only for autopsy or burial.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced March 12, 2025 by Cindy Hyde-Smith · Last progress March 12, 2025