To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue obtained pursuant to an abortion.

Bill: 114-hr-3171
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-22
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion

Medical research

Organ and tissue donation and transplantation

Research administration and funding
Latest action: action_date: 2015-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-07-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the use of tissue from a spontaneous or induced abortion&nbsp;in research conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health on the transplantation of fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes. (A spontaneous abortion is the death of a fetus before the age of viability, also known as a miscarriage.)</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3171 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 22, 2015 Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself and Mr. Duffy ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue obtained pursuant to an abortion.

1. Prohibiting certain research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue obtained pursuant to an abortion Section 498A(a) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 289g–1(a) ) is amended— (1) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows: (2) Prohibition on use of tissue obtained pursuant to abortions Human fetal tissue may be used in research carried out under paragraph (1) only if the tissue is obtained pursuant to a stillbirth. ; (2) in subsection (b)(2)— (A) by striking subparagraph (A); and (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; (3) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking may have been obtained pursuant to a spontaneous or induced abortion or pursuant to a stillbirth and inserting has been obtained pursuant to a stillbirth ; and (4) in subsection (g), by striking after a spontaneous or induced abortion, or .