Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2025

No Federal department, agency, or office may conduct, fund, approve, or otherwise support any research involving human fetal tissue that is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion.

Subsection (a) does not limit the authority of the head of any Federal department, agency, or office, to develop or support the development of new, high-efficiency cell lines, including for the production of vaccines and genetic vectors, so long as the cell lines are not derived from human fetal tissue that is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion.

Any research of any Federal department, agency, or office on human fetal tissue obtained after a miscarriage or stillbirth shall be conducted or supported in accordance with section 498A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–1).

In this subsection, the term human fetal tissue has the meaning given such term in section 498A(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–1(g)).

Section 498A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–1) is amended—

(1) in the section heading, by striking transplantation of fetal tissue and inserting human fetal tissue obtained after a miscarriage or stillbirth;

(2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

The Secretary may conduct or support research on human fetal tissue obtained after a miscarriage or a stillbirth.

(3) in subsection (b)—

(A) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting if the human fetal tissue is intended for transplantation, before the donation; and

(B) in paragraph (2)—

(i) by striking subparagraph (A); and

(ii) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;

(4) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking pursuant to a spontaneous or induced abortion or pursuant to and inserting after a miscarriage or; and

(5) by amending subsection (g) to read as follows:

In this section:

The term human fetal tissue means tissue or cells obtained from a dead unborn child pursuant to an induced abortion, a miscarriage, or a stillbirth.

The term miscarriage means the involuntary death of an unborn child who was carried in the womb for a period of less than 20 weeks.

The term stillbirth means the involuntary death of an unborn child who was carried in the womb for a period of 20 weeks or more.

-The term unborn child has the meaning given such term in section 1841(d) of title 18, United States Code.

Section 113 of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 289g–1 note) is repealed.

Paragraph (1) of section 498B(c) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–2(c)) is amended to read as follows:

(1) solicit or knowingly acquire, receive, or accept a donation (excluding any transfer for purposes of autopsy or burial) of human fetal tissue knowing that—

(A) a human pregnancy was deliberately initiated to provide such tissue; or

(B) the tissue was obtained pursuant to an induced abortion; or

Section 498B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–2) is amended—

(1) by striking subsection (b);

(2) by redesignating subsections (c) through (e) as subsections (b) through (d), respectively; and

(3) in subsection (c), as redesignated—

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking (a), (b), or (c) and inserting (a) or (b); and

(B) in paragraph (2), by striking or (b)(3).