Thursday, March 28, 2024

Killing for Transplants: Exposing China’s Murder for Organs Practice

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Organ transplants are a marvel of modern medicine. Doctors should adhere to the highest ethical guidelines to procure organs and find a suitable match. However, standards in are decidedly lower.

According to recent reporting, China's thriving transplant program, worth an estimated $1 billion a year, is bolstered by forced organ harvesting from marginalized groups — sometimes while the donor is still alive.

As RealClearPolitics reports:

Though China announced that it banned this hideous practice in 2015, transparency is lacking and mounting evidence indicates that it continues. Nevertheless, the American transplant sector, while adhering to medical ethics at home, openly supports China's transplant doctors and industry.

In 2006, shocking reports first surfaced of China forcibly harvesting organs from detained Falun Gong adherents. According to these reports, after Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual meditation group, was targeted for “elimination” by China's president in 1999, thousands of practitioners were thrown into labor camps and jails and subjected to organ screening, unexplained deaths, and disappearances. Many, the group says, were killed for their organs, which were sold to China's transplant sector, just as it surged and became a billion-dollar industry. Credible testimony from former detainees, relatives, patients, and surgeons supports this. It was during this period that scores of Chinese transplant surgeons published articles, openly describing procedures on prisoners who “were alive and breathing as the surgeons cut their hearts out,” as documented in a 2022 article in the respected American Journal of Transplantation, written by Victims of Communism Foundation fellow Matthew Robertson and Israeli Dr. Jacob Lavee.

Last year 12 independent UN experts stated they were “extremely alarmed” by “credible information” that forced organ harvesting was continuing and, moreover, targeting China's various religious minorities. Several sources report evidence that the atrocity has spread to Xinjiang's massive network of closed detention camps, which, significantly, were built after 2015, and which both Republican and Democratic administrations recognized as the site of ongoing genocide against China's Uyghur Muslims.

No satisfactory explanation exists for how – despite only a million registered volunteer donors in China, compared with America's 145 million in 2019 – China's patients can schedule appointments for transplant surgeries within days or weeks, as patients and investigators reported, instead of waiting months or years, as in the U.S. In addition, Robertson, Lavee, and Australian statistician Raymond Hinde have determined that the growth curves of China's voluntary donation lists for three organ types formed implausible, nearly perfect quadratic equations. In a peer-reviewed medical ethics journal article in 2019, they conclude that China's donor database was “falsified” as a result of being “manufactured and manipulated from the central levels of the Chinese medical bureaucracy.” Also, China's reported number of annual transplants, 5,000-6,000, appears understated. Documenting Chinese transplant hospitals, beds and surgeons, Gutmann and Canadian human rights experts David Mattas and David Kilgour estimated that 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants are occurring annually in China, with 8,000 a year at just one hospital.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. The leadership of China since “the revolution” has been despicable and remains so, not just in human rights violations, which there are no human rights in China to violate, but in almost every other endeavor of the government there. They are beyond defense by any other civilized country. What is concerning to me is that so many “normal” citizens cooperate with the whims of these inhuman overlords that rule China as if it was a machine with interchangeable, easily replaced parts. In reality, these parts that they dismiss as simply cogs in their machine are humans and have thoughts and aspirations beyond what the machine “needs” as expressed by true villains in their government. They go beyond what most humans would do, even to the lowest of animals, even insects. I think if the people ever become sentient again, rebel against the tyranny they endure, the world would help them. They are a diverse and resourceful people that could help themselves and the world if they would decide to shed this abomination that rules them with deceit and ruthlessness. They did it once, they could do it again. Only better.

  2. My brother died suddenly in a Chinese restaurant about 7 years ago in china. A doctor in Beijing refused to release his body until 16k was paid in cash. After about a week and a half they finally sent him home in a soldered shut casket. No autopsy no nothing. They were very mean to his widow. I have no doubt now that they stole his organs without permission. China is our enemy and the dem taliban are outright aiding them in destroying our country. They deserve to be shot for high treason. They also want our guns because they intend to do even more to us that we would shoot them for.

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