A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to make it a Federal crime to carry out any nontherapeutic research activity on a human fetus or to intentionally take any action to kill or hasten the death of a human fetus in any Federally supported facility or activity.

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Introduced

13 June 1977

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Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summary

Prohibits any person from: (1) carrying out any research activity on a human fetus which is outside the womb of its mother and has a beating heart if the research or the facility in which it is conducted is federally supported; or (2) taking any action to kill or hasten the death of such a fetus in a federally supported facility.

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summary · EN · 13 June 1977
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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/7741
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