Forced Organ Harvesting
Forced Organ Harvesting is the execution of a political prisoner via the harvesting of his or her organs. It is taking place as we speak in China, where political dissidents and religious minorities such as practitioners of Falun Gong, Uighur Muslims, and house church Christians are forced to undergo blood and tissue typing as part of their arrest. Their organs are then put on the market for transplant tourists who come to China from all over the world, and who arrive ready for surgery on the date that the political prisoner is scheduled to be killed. Sadly, though this practice is prohibited by law in many countries, some American insurance companies still provide Chinese transplant tourism as a covered benefit.
In November 2024, Taiwan charged surgeon Chen Yao-li and four other individuals of illegally brokering organ transplants in China, the first indictment since the island amended its Human Organ Transplant Act in 2015.
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So far, three US states (Texas, Utah, and Idaho) have passed legislation prohibiting those states' insurance companies from paying for organ transplants originating in China. Please consider writing your representatives about enacting a similar law in your state.​
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The US House of Representatives has passed two bills (HR 1154 and HR 4132) which would sanction anyone involved in forced organ harvesting. However, the Senate version (S 761) is stalled in the Foreign Relations Committee.
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Image from ZeroHedge's article: Japan's First-Ever Conviction For Illegal Organ Trafficking Shines Light on Forced Organ Harvesting
For more information on this practice, we highly recommend the film "Human Harvest" from Journeyman Pictures and Flying Cloud Productions, directed by Leon Lee.
