End Trafficking of the Terminated Unborn Act of 2017

End Trafficking of the Terminated Unborn Act of 2017

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the use of tissue from an induced abortion for research conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health on the transplantation of fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes.

Soliciting or acquiring a donation of fetal tissue from an induced abortion for a purpose other than disposal is prohibited.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 524 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 524

    To prohibit any person from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, 
   receiving, or accepting a donation of human fetal tissue for any 
   purpose other than disposal of the tissue if the donation affects 
 interstate commerce and the tissue will be or is obtained pursuant to 
              an induced abortion, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2017

 Mr. Lamborn (for himself, Mr. Wenstrup, Mr. Mooney of West Virginia, 
and Mr. Jones) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit any person from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, 
   receiving, or accepting a donation of human fetal tissue for any 
   purpose other than disposal of the tissue if the donation affects 
 interstate commerce and the tissue will be or is obtained pursuant to 
              an induced abortion, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``End Trafficking of the Terminated 
Unborn Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF AUTHORITY FOR FUNDING RESEARCH ON FETAL TISSUE 
              OBTAINED PURSUANT TO AN INDUCED ABORTION.

    Section 498A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g-1) is 
amended--
            (1) by amending paragraph (2) of subsection (a) to read as 
        follows:
            ``(2) Source of tissue.--Human fetal tissue may be used in 
        research carried out under paragraph (1) only if the tissue is 
        obtained pursuant to a spontaneous abortion or a stillbirth.'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking subparagraph (A) and 
        redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) 
        and (B), respectively;
            (3) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking ``or induced''; 
        and
            (4) in subsection (g), by striking ``or induced''.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST SOLICITATION OR ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF 
              FETAL TISSUE PURSUANT TO AN INDUCED ABORTION.

    Subsection (b) of section 498B of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 289g-2) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Prohibition Against Solicitation or Acceptance of a Donation 
of Fetal Tissue Pursuant to an Abortion.--It shall be unlawful for any 
person to solicit or knowingly acquire, receive, or accept a donation 
of human fetal tissue for any purpose other than disposal of the tissue 
if the donation affects interstate commerce and the tissue will be or 
is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion.''.
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