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Public Law 109–242
To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the solicitation or acceptance of tissue from fetuses gestated for research purposes, and for other purposes.
Approved July 19, 2006
Statutory text
An Act
To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the solicitation or acceptance of tissue from fetuses gestated for research purposes, and for other purposes.
July 19, 2006
[S. 3504]
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 “Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF THE SOLICITATION OR ACCEPTANCE OF TISSUE FROM FETUSES GESTATED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES.
Section 498B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g–2) is amended—
by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively;
by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
“(c) Solicitation or Acceptance of Tissue From Fetuses Gestated for Research Purposes.—
It shall be unlawful for any person or entity involved or engaged in interstate commerce to—
“(1) solicit or knowingly acquire, receive, or accept a donation of human fetal tissue knowing that a human pregnancy was deliberately initiated to provide such tissue; or
“(2) knowingly acquire, receive, or accept tissue or cells obtained from a human embryo or fetus that was gestated in the uterus of a nonhuman animal.”
;
in paragraph (1) of subsection (d), as so redesignated, by striking “(a) or (b)” and inserting “(a), (b), or (c)”; and
in paragraph (1) of subsection (e), as so redesignated, by striking “section 498A(f)” and inserting “section 498A(g)”.
Approved .