The bill comes as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded EcoHealth Alliance a five-year grant of more than $650,000 per annum.
A recent study showed that the number of infants born at 22 to 28 weeks has significantly improved since 2012, raising new considerations about the age of fetal viability.
The federal government has awarded $1.67 million in grants for the study of how vaccines can affect menstruation – but only after pushing the vaccine on pregnant and childbearing-age women.
After President Biden told reporters his administration was looking at a nationwide mandate for the shot, a White House official said the scheme is not under consideration.
The NIH is proposing lifting a ban on taxpayer funding of experiments that splice human stem cells with animal embryos, creating human-animal chimeras.