A bill to amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act to require certain review and recommendations concerning applications for assistance to perform research and to permit certain research concerning the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes, and for other purposes.
Research Freedom Act of 1991 - Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services: (1) from approving any application for financial assistance to conduct research subject to review by an Institutional Review Board unless the application has undergone review and has been recommended for approval by an Institutional Review Board; and (2) from authorizing research that is subject to review under procedures established by the Secretary for the protection of human subjects in clinical research by the National Institutes of Health unless the research has been recommended for approval.
Permits the Secretary to conduct or support research concerning the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes. Permits the use of such tissue in such research regardless of whether the tissue is obtained subsequent to a spontaneous or induced abortion or subsequent to a stillbirth. Requires consent of the woman involved, the researcher, and the donee.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-466.
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