Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2025

Chamber: United States Senate (The United States of America)
Session: 119th Congress Current
**Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2025** This bill prohibits federal agencies from supporting research involving, and prohibits any entity from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, human fetal tissue obtained pursuant to an induced abortion.  Specifically, the bill prohibits any federal agency from conducting, funding, approving, or otherwise supporting research involving such tissue. Federal agencies may conduct or support research involving human fetal tissue obtained after a miscarriage or stillbirth. Additionally, the bill prohibits any entity from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, receiving, or accepting a donation of human fetal tissue where the entity knows it was obtained pursuant to an induced abortion. Entities violating this prohibition are subject to criminal penalties. The bill provides an exception for transfers for purposes of autopsy or burial.

Sponsors

(11)
CH
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Republican · Primary
JR
James Risch
Republican · Primary
JL
James Lankford
Republican · Primary
JK
John Kennedy
Republican · Primary
JH
Josh Hawley
Republican · Primary
MM
Markwayne Mullin
Republican · Primary
SD
Steve Daines
Republican · Primary
JB
John Barrasso
Republican · Primary
ML
Mike Lee
Republican · Primary
KC
Kevin Cramer
Republican · Primary
JC
John Cornyn
Republican · Cosponsor

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