Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act of 2025
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became Law
Overview
This bill blocks federal government involvement in research using tissue from aborted fetuses, including funding, conducting, or approving such research.
Why it matters: It protects Christian convictions about the dignity of unborn life by preventing taxpayer money and federal resources from supporting research that treats aborted fetal tissue as research material.
Topic: Sanctity of life · classifier confidence 95%
What this changes
Amends existing law
Law today: Federal law currently permits the government to fund and conduct research using human fetal tissue obtained from induced abortions, subject to certain restrictions and ethical review processes.
If passed: This bill would prohibit the federal government from funding, conducting, approving, or supporting any research that uses fetal tissue from induced abortions, and would ban the solicitation or acceptance of such tissue donations. Christian families who oppose abortion on religious grounds would see federal research dollars redirected away from studies they view as complicit in abortion.
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Likely supporters & opponents
Likely support
- pro-life and religious-liberty groups — Federal funding should not support research dependent on induced abortion, which violates the conscience and religious convictions of taxpayers who believe life begins at conception.
- religious organizations — Using fetal tissue from abortion contradicts the sanctity of life and treats human life as merely instrumental for scientific advancement.
Likely opposition
- medical research organizations and patient-advocacy groups — Fetal tissue research has led to treatments for Parkinson's, diabetes, and other serious diseases, and the restriction would slow medical progress and harm patients seeking cures.
- academic and scientific institutions — The ban infringes on scientific freedom and removes a valuable research tool that operates under existing ethical safeguards and institutional review.
AI-inferred typical positions based on the bill’s substance — general stakeholder categories, not confirmed endorsements.
Should I support this?
Likely helpful for Christian families
From a Christian pro-life perspective, this bill aligns with the conviction that federal taxpayer dollars should not support or incentivize research dependent on induced abortion. It protects the conscience rights of believers who hold that life begins at conception and should not be used instrumentally for research purposes.
An AI assessment from a Christian-family perspective — religious freedom, parental rights, and freedom in education — not legal or voting advice.
Official summary
A bill to prohibit the Federal Government from conducting, funding, approving, or otherwise supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion, and to prohibit the solicitation or knowing acquisition, receipt, or acceptance of a donation of such issue.
Sponsors
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R)
- James Risch (R)
- James Lankford (R)
- John Kennedy (R)
- Josh Hawley (R)
- Markwayne Mullin (R)
- Steve Daines (R)
- John Barrasso (R)
- Mike Lee (R)
- Kevin Cramer (R)
- John Cornyn (R)
Status timeline
- 2025-03-12Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.S
H = House · S = Senate · A = Assembly