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Bills Introduced

Reproductive Health

H. Res. 926—Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL)/Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Government Reform (11/16/16)—A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the president should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously, to Mrs. Henrietta Lacks, in recognition of her invaluable contribution to modern science in the form of her own immortal cells-HeLa cells-without which life-saving medicines and procedures would not have been developed at critical moments in our nation’s history.

H.R. 6313—Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV)/Judiciary (11/15/16)—A bill to criminalize knowingly preventing the implantation of certain human embryos, and for other purposes.

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