Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Providing Certainty for Progenitors Act of 2016”.
Providing Certainty for Progenitors Act of 2016
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to criminalize knowingly preventing the implantation of certain human embryos, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Protection of living human embryos
In general— Chapter 90A of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“1842. Protection of living human embryos
“(a) Offense—Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, having physical custody of a living human embryo, refuses to release the embryo for implantation in a willing implantee at the request of one of the progenitors of that embryo shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 3 months, or both.
“(b) Exception for progenitor—A progenitor of the embryo that is not implanted may not be prosecuted under this section.
“(c) Progenitor—The term “progenitor” means any individual who provides an egg or a sperm cell from which the embryo is created.”
Clerical amendment— The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 90A of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
Sec. 3 Effective date
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.