Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2023
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from conducting or supporting any research involving human fetal … Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from conducting or supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2023
This bill restricts research that uses human fetal tissue from an induced abortion.
Specifically, it prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from conducting or supporting such research. Additionally, the bill applies requirements on the research of transplantation of fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes to research on fetal tissue in general.
The bill also prohibits soliciting or acquiring a donation of human fetal tissue from an induced abortion, other than for purposes of an autopsy or burial.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 398: Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2023. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-398/
"H.R. 398: Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2023." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-398/.
H.R. 398, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-398/.
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