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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3713 

To prohibit the Federal Government from conducting, funding, approving, 

or otherwise supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that 

is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion, and to prohibit the solicitation or knowing acquisition, receipt, or acceptance of a donation of 

such tissue. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 31, 2024 

Mrs. HYDE-SMITH (for herself, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. COTTON, Mr. 

THUNE, Mr. DAINES, Mr. LEE, Mr. RISCH, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. LANKFORD, 

Mr. CRAMER, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BUDD, Mr. ROUNDS, Mrs. FISCHER, and Mr. KENNEDY) introduced the following bill; which was read 

twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 

Pensions 

A BILL 

To prohibit the Federal Government from conducting, funding, approving, or otherwise supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that is obtained pursuant 

to an induced abortion, and to prohibit the solicitation 

or knowing acquisition, receipt, or acceptance of a donation of such tissue. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Life and 

3 Integrity in Research Act of 2024’’. 

4 SEC. 2. NO RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN FETAL TISSUE 

5 OBTAINED PURSUANT TO AN INDUCED ABOR6 TION. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.— 

8 (1) IN GENERAL.—No Federal department, 

9 agency, or office may conduct, fund, approve, or oth10 erwise support any research involving human fetal 

11 tissue that is obtained pursuant to an induced abor12 tion. 

13 (2) DEVELOPMENT OF NEW, ETHICAL CELL

14 LINES.—Subsection (a) does not limit the authority 

15 of the head of any Federal department, agency, or 

16 office, to develop or support the development of new, 

17 high-efficiency cell lines, including for the production 

18 of vaccines and genetic vectors, so long as the cell 

19 lines are not derived from human fetal tissue that is 

20 obtained pursuant to an induced abortion. 

21 (3) RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN FETAL TIS22 SUE OBTAINED AFTER A MISCARRIAGE OR STILL23 BIRTH PERMITTED.—Any research of any Federal 

24 department, agency, or office on human fetal tissue 

25 obtained after a miscarriage or stillbirth shall be 

26 conducted or supported in accordance with section 


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1 498A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

2 289g–1). 

3 (4) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 

4 ‘‘human fetal tissue’’ has the meaning given such 

5 term in section 498A(g) of the Public Health Service 

6 Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–1(g)). 

7 (b) AMENDMENTS TO THE PHSA LIMITING HUMAN

8 FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH TO TISSUE OBTAINED AFTER

9 A MISCARRIAGE OR STILLBIRTH.—Section 498A of the 

10 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–1) is amend11 ed— 

12 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘TRANS13 PLANTATION OF FETAL TISSUE’’ and inserting 

14 ‘‘HUMAN FETAL TISSUE OBTAINED AFTER A

15 MISCARRIAGE OR STILLBIRTH’’; 

16 (2) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol17 lows: 

18 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—The Secretary 

19 may conduct or support research on human fetal tissue 

20 obtained after a miscarriage or a stillbirth.’’; 

21 (3) in subsection (b)— 

22 (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting ‘‘if 

23 the human fetal tissue is intended for trans24 plantation,’’ before ‘‘the donation’’; and 

25 (B) in paragraph (2)— 


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1 (i) by striking subparagraph (A); and 

2 (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs 

3 (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and 

4 (B), respectively; 

5 (4) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking ‘‘pursu6 ant to a spontaneous or induced abortion or pursu7 ant to’’ and inserting ‘‘after a miscarriage or’’; and 

8 (5) by amending subsection (g) to read as fol9 lows: 

10 ‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

11 ‘‘(1) HUMAN FETAL TISSUE.—The term 

12 ‘human fetal tissue’ means tissue or cells obtained 

13 from a dead unborn child pursuant to an induced 

14 abortion, a miscarriage, or a stillbirth. 

15 ‘‘(2) MISCARRIAGE.—The term ‘miscarriage’ 

16 means the involuntary death of an unborn child who 

17 was carried in the womb for a period of less than 

18 20 weeks. 

19 ‘‘(3) STILLBIRTH.—The term ‘stillbirth’ means 

20 the involuntary death of an unborn child who was 

21 carried in the womb for a period of 20 weeks or 

22 more. 

23 ‘‘(4) UNBORN CHILD.—-The term ‘unborn 

24 child’ has the meaning given such term in section 

25 1841(d) of title 18, United States Code.’’. 


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1 (c) CONFORMING REPEAL.—Section 113 of the Na2 tional Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 (42 

3 U.S.C. 289g–1 note) is repealed. 

4 SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST SOLICITATION OR KNOWING 

5 ACQUISITION, RECEIPT, OR ACCEPTANCE OF 

6 A DONATION OF HUMAN FETAL TISSUE 

7 KNOWING THAT THE TISSUE WAS OBTAINED 

8 PURSUANT TO AN INDUCED ABORTION. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section 498B(c) 

10 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–2(c)) 

11 is amended to read as follows: 

12 ‘‘(1) solicit or knowingly acquire, receive, or ac13 cept a donation (excluding any transfer for purposes 

14 of autopsy or burial) of human fetal tissue knowing 

15 that— 

16 ‘‘(A) a human pregnancy was deliberately 

17 initiated to provide such tissue; or 

18 ‘‘(B) the tissue was obtained pursuant to 

19 an induced abortion; or’’. 

20 (b) CONFORMING CHANGES.—Section 498B of the 

21 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–2) is amend22 ed— 

23 (1) by striking subsection (b); 

24 (2) by redesignating subsections (c) through (e) 

25 as subsections (b) through (d), respectively; and 


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1 (3) in subsection (c), as redesignated— 

2 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘(a), (b), 

3 or (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) or (b)’’; and 

4 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or 

5 (b)(3)’’. 

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