SB 260

Generally, this bill prohibits certain sales and uses of fetal body parts derived

from an unborn child aborted by an induced abortion. The bill also requires

arrangement for final disposition of the fetal body parts by a physician who performs

the induced abortion.

Current law prohibits a person from knowingly and for valuable consideration

acquiring, receiving, or otherwise transferring a human organ. Current federal law

prohibits a person from knowingly acquiring, receiving, or otherwise transferring,

in interstate commerce, any fetal tissue for valuable consideration. This bill

prohibits a person from knowingly acquiring, providing, receiving, or using a fetal

body part in this state, regardless of whether the acquisition, provision, receipt, or

use is for valuable consideration. A fetal body part, as defined in the bill, is a cell,

tissue, organ, or other part of an unborn child who is aborted by an induced abortion

after January 1, 2015. The bill's prohibition does not apply to use of a fetal body part

for diagnostic or remedial tests, procedures, or observations which have the sole

purpose of determining the life or health of the unborn child in order to provide that

information to the mother or preserving the life or health of the child, unborn child,

or the child's mother.

The bill requires a physician who performs an induced abortion to arrange for

final disposition by burial, interment, entombment, cremation, or incineration of the

fetal body parts. A person who is acting exclusively in furtherance of final disposition

of a fetal body part is not guilty of violating the prohibitions in the bill.