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S 987 · Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Introduced
Mar 12, 2025
Latest action
Mar 12, 2025
Sponsor
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS]
Policy area
Health
Cosponsors
10

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.

Recent actions

  1. Mar 12, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  2. Mar 12, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Votes

No recorded votes are available for this bill.

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