To amend title 18, United States Code, to criminalize knowingly preventing the implantation of certain human embryos, and for other purposes.
Providing Certainty for Progenitors Act of 2016
This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime to have physical custody of a living human embryo and refuse to release the embryo for implantation in a willing implantee at the request of one of the progenitors of that embryo. A progenitor is an individual who provides an egg or a sperm cell from which an embryo is created.
A violator is subject to a fine, up to three months in prison, or both.
Additionally, the bill bars the criminal prosecution of a progenitor of an embryo that is not implanted.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
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