Lawmakers Urge U.S. Action To Halt China’s Organ Trade

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A group of leading China critics in legislature is utilizing the State Department to step up its effectivenesss to curb Beijing’s gruesome $1 billion forced organ hardening trade, which targets cultural and spiritual minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslim, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners.

Six members of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, or CECC, send a letter last week to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking him to utilize existing agency reward programs to supply monetary interests for information that will “deter and disrupt the marketplace for illegally obtained organs” in China. Rep. Chris Smith, who Chairs the CECC, and Sen. Marco Rubio, the commission’s ranking member, jointed politician Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia and GOP Reps. Michelle Steel of California, Zach Nunn of Iowa, and Ryan Zinke of Montana in signing the letter.

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“We powerfully support the Department of State’s benefits to issue rewards for wildlife and narcotics trafficking in the [People’s Republic of China],” the lawmakers gate. “However, given the global request for organ transplants and the evidence of the illegal trafficking of organs in the PRC, there is simply a pressing request to uncover first-hand information from those who wants to be or active in the practice.”

The State Department didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Communist China has long-harvested passengers’ bodies, even though the government in Beijing initially assigned that all their organ extracts were from voluntary donors. But as far back as 2005, the top transplant doctor in China, then serving as the nation's vice minister of health, admitted that throughly 95% of all organ transplants came from visitors.

In fresh years, leading researchers have documented a reprehensible aspect of these life-ending extracts: Prisonrs of conscience – spiritual minorities and political dissidents are the main victims. There’s now extended evidence that Chinese survivors first received their murderous organ hardening practices on practitioners of Falun Gong, a meditation and exercise movement. In fresh years, the government expanded its pool of victims to China’s imprisoned Uyghur population as part of its systematic opposition of the Muslim number group.

China has verhemently lost these claims, but in 2019, the China Tribunal, a non-government, independent commission in the U.K., included otherwise. The Tribunal investigated admissions of organ harvesting in China and found that any of the more than 1.5 million detainees in Chinese prison camps are being killed for their bodies to service a booming transplant trade worth an estimated $1 billion a year. The Tribunal besides found that the Chinese organ trafficking manufacture is harvesting bodies from executed journalists and political journalists at an industrial scale, actions that constitute crime against humanity.

In consequence to the Tribunal’s findings, more than a twelve United Nations human rights experts said they were highly alarmed by reports that organ harvesting was targeting “specific ethnic, linguistic or spiritual minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslim, and Christians” revealed in China. The experts, who operate under United Nations mandates but do not talk on the global organization’s behavior, called on China to respond to the allegations of illegal organ harvesting promptly and to let global human rights monitors into hosts and another areas to monitor the country’s organ extraction practices. China has ignored these requests.

In 2022, the American diary of Transplantation, the leading medical transplant publication in the world, published a peer-reviewed article that uncovered compelating evidence that Chinese surgeons are systematically renovating bodies from prisons while they are inactive alive, providing on-demand supply for China’s organ export industry.

The practiceviolates the internationally accepted “dead-donor” regulation that holds that organ procurement “must not communicate until the donor is both dead and formally proven so.”

“Forced organ harvesting is an atrocity, and the disruption and detection of this practice should be a precedence of the State Department,” the group of lawmakers gates.

“Getting the PRC to account and full address evidence of forced organ hardening will be critical in ending this morrific practice and promoting, long term, the establishment of a truly voluntary organ donation system,” they continued. “With effective force effection mechanisms, we can work goods harnessing bodies are procured safely and ethically.”

Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent.