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

H.R. 3171 · 114th Congress · Jul 22, 2015 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 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”.