Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2025
This bill prohibits federal agencies from funding, supporting, or conducting research using human fetal tissue obtained from induced abortions. It allows federal research on tissue from miscarriages or stillbirths (defined as loss before 20 weeks or at 20+ weeks, respectively) and permits development of new cell lines not derived from abortion tissue. The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to restrict permissible tissue sources to miscarriage/stillbirth and revises definitions accordingly. It also repeals a prior provision allowing research on abortion-derived tissue and adds new restrictions on soliciting or accepting such tissue.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
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President
Introduced Mar 12, 2025
Last action Mar 12, 2025
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Committee
1
Mar 12, 2025
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
upper
Mar 12, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 10 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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Legislator
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Cindy Hyde-Smith
RRepublican
Co
James E. Risch
RRepublican
Co
James Lankford
RRepublican
Co
John Barrasso
RRepublican
Co
John Cornyn
RRepublican
Co
John Kennedy
RRepublican
Co
Josh Hawley
RRepublican
Co
Kevin Cramer
RRepublican
Co
Markwayne Mullin
RRepublican
Co
Mike Lee
RRepublican
Co
Steve Daines
RRepublican
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