S 987
Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2025
Summary
Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2025 This bill prohibits federal agencies from supporting research involving, and prohibits any entity from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, human fetal tissue obtained pursuant to an induced abortion. Specifically, the bill prohibits any federal agency from conducting, funding, approving, or otherwise supporting research involving such tissue. Federal agencies may conduct or support research involving human fetal tissue obtained after a miscarriage or stillbirth. Additionally, the bill prohibits any entity from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, receiving, or accepting a donation of human fetal tissue where the entity knows it was obtained pursuant to an induced abortion. Entities violating this prohibition are subject to criminal penalties. The bill provides an exception for transfers for purposes of autopsy or burial.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS]
- Cosponsors
- 10
- Policy area
- Health
- Introduced
- 2025-03-12
- Latest action
- 2025-03-12: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-03-12: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2025-03-12: Introduced in Senate