{"id":1632157,"date":"2022-09-03T21:18:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T01:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632157"},"modified":"2022-09-03T21:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T01:19:39","slug":"chinas-forced-organ-harvesting-demands-u-s-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-forced-organ-harvesting-demands-u-s-response\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Forced Organ Harvesting Demands U.S. Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinas-forced-organ-harvesting-demands-u-s-response%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632157&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>American doctors go to great lengths to maintain the highest ethical standards as they work to save thousands of desperately ill patients waiting for an organ match, as underscored in recent reporting of innovative transplant experiments using genetically modified pig hearts. China\u2019s transplant sector, unconstrained by rigorous ethical rules, found a more expedient solution. China created a thriving transplant industry, the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/news\/top_news\/2018\/07\/05\/content_281476209784504.htm\">second largest<\/a>, based on a supply of organs forcibly harvested from executed prisoners \u2013 most likely prisoners of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s transplant doctors and industry.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201celimination\u201d by China\u2019s 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\u2019s transplant sector, just as it surged and became a billion-dollar industry. Credible <a href=\"https:\/\/bitterwinter.org\/organ-harvesting-in-china-is-real-smoking-guns\/\">testimony<\/a> 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 \u201cwere alive and breathing as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/science\/articles\/china-killer-doctors\">surgeons<\/a> cut their hearts out,\u201d as documented in a 2022 article in the respected <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/ajt.16969\">American Journal of Transplantation<\/a>, written by Victims of Communism Foundation fellow Matthew Robertson and Israeli Dr. Jacob Lavee.<\/p>\n<p>Last year 12 independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2021\/06\/china-un-human-rights-experts-alarmed-organ-harvesting-allegations?LangID=E&amp;NewsID=27167\">UN experts<\/a> stated they were \u201cextremely alarmed\u201d by \u201ccredible information\u201d that forced organ harvesting was continuing and, moreover, targeting China\u2019s various religious minorities. Several sources report evidence that the atrocity has spread to Xinjiang\u2019s 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\u2019s Uyghur Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Nury Turkel, who chairs the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, documented forced blood sampling and organ screening of Uyghur detainees, including a Christian, Ovalbek Turdakun, whom one of us interviewed. As noted in a May 2022 European Parliament resolution, a Beijing hospital brazenly advertised its use of \u201c\u2018halal organs\u2019 from Uyghurs and Muslim minorities.\u201d At the International Religious Freedom <a href=\"https:\/\/irfsummit.org\/\">Summit<\/a>, held in Washington, D.C. in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudson.org\/research\/17967-forced-organ-harvesting-american-organ-transplant-collaboration-with-china-despite-damning-evidence\">Ethan Gutmann<\/a>, the leading field researcher on China\u2019s forced organ harvesting, estimated that 25,000 to 50,000 Uyghurs have been killed annually for their organs. Gutmann\u2019s research implicates a former SARS hospital in Aksu, Xinjiang, which is served by an airport with a designated \u201cfast lane\u201d for expressing organs to hospitals throughout China.<\/p>\n<p>No satisfactory explanation exists for how \u2013 despite only a million registered volunteer donors in China, compared with America\u2019s 145 million in 2019 \u2013 China\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12910-019-0406-6\">determined<\/a> that the growth curves of China\u2019s voluntary donation lists for three organ types formed implausible, nearly perfect quadratic equations. In a peer-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12910-019-0406-6\">medical ethics journal<\/a> article in 2019, they conclude that China\u2019s donor database was \u201cfalsified\u201d as a result of being \u201cmanufactured and manipulated from the central levels of the Chinese medical bureaucracy.\u201d Also, China\u2019s reported number of annual transplants, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/news\/top_news\/2018\/07\/05\/content_281476209784504.htm\">5,000-6,000<\/a>, appears understated. Documenting Chinese transplant hospitals, beds and surgeons, Gutmann and Canadian human rights experts David Mattas and David Kilgour <a href=\"https:\/\/endtransplantabuse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Bloody_Harvest-The_Slaughter-June-23-V2.pdf\">estimated<\/a> that 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants are occurring annually in China, with 8,000 a year at just one hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Though shocking, China\u2019s lack of medical ethics is not entirely surprising considering that it perpetrates ethno-religious genocide. But, given the grave questions about organ sourcing raised in these reports and China\u2019s lack of transparency, it is unconscionable that major American universities and hospitals support China\u2019s transplant sector. As brandished on their websites, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pittsburgh, and many other others provide China with fellowships, academic exchanges, conferences, and joint research projects. American institutions are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upholdjustice.org\/node\/547\">documented<\/a> to have trained 344 of China\u2019s transplant doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the American medical community apparently collaborate in the hope of persuading their Chinese partners to ensure organ donation is indeed voluntary. But when blocked from verifying claims of reform, these same U.S. institutions accept China\u2019s word at face value and even <a href=\"https:\/\/chinamedicalboard.org\/news\/china_transplant_conference_focuses_%E2%80%9Cchina_model%E2%80%9D\">praise<\/a> its progress. They are not alone in buying China\u2019s lies. The medical ethics journal cited above observed: \u201cThe World Health Organization, the Transplantation Society, the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences have all provided endorsements of the reforms based on what appears to be contaminated data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO\u2019s organ transplant task force, for example,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American doctors go to great lengths to maintain the highest ethical standards as they work to save thousands of desperately ill patients waiting for an organ match, as underscored in recent reporting of innovative transplant experiments using genetically modified pig hearts. China\u2019s transplant sector, unconstrained by rigorous ethical rules, found a more expedient solution. 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