[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3171 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3171

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2015

Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself and Mr. Duffy) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


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

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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''.
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