To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from conducting or supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion, and for other purposes.
Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2017
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the use of tissue from an induced abortion for research conducted or supported by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
HHS may develop or support new high-efficiency cell lines so long as the cell lines are not derived from tissue from an induced abortion.
Soliciting or acquiring a donation of fetal tissue from an induced abortion for a purpose other than autopsy or burial is prohibited.
The bill applies requirements on the research of transplantation of fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes to research on fetal tissue.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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