{"id":1906856,"date":"2023-03-29T21:10:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T01:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-moves-closer-to-holding-ccp-accountable-with-house-passage-of-anti-forced-organ-harvesting-bill-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T21:21:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T01:21:52","slug":"us-moves-closer-to-holding-ccp-accountable-with-house-passage-of-anti-forced-organ-harvesting-bill-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-moves-closer-to-holding-ccp-accountable-with-house-passage-of-anti-forced-organ-harvesting-bill-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"US Moves Closer to Holding CCP Accountable With House Passage of Anti-Forced Organ Harvesting Bill: Lawmakers"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fus-moves-closer-to-holding-ccp-accountable-with-house-passage-of-anti-forced-organ-harvesting-bill-lawmakers%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=1906856&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0330\/81b13693-3e4a-4487-b1be-1a0269c08f4d\/audio.mp3?length=5614605&#038;duration=468\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMurderous,\u201d \u201cgrotesque,\u201d \u201cimmoral,\u201d \u201cbarbaric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s forced organ harvesting has appalled Washington and united lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>As a bill seeking to end the atrocity continues to advance\u2014having passed the House by a vote of 413-2\u2014members of Congress cheered the development and reaffirmed their determination to hold the regime accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForced organ harvesting is cruel and immoral, often targeting ethnic and religious minorities and some of the most vulnerable groups in the world,\u201d said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who co-leads the Senate version of the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act.<\/p>\n<p>As a co-chair of the Senate Human Rights Caucus, he expressed pride in seeing the bill pass the House and getting \u201ccloser to empowering the Biden administration to take action against those who practice this despicable crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Mass Murder of Innocents\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>As early as 2006, witnesses had been raising the alarm on Beijing\u2019s state-sanctioned killing of detained practitioners of Falun Gong, a faith that Beijing has waged an all-out campaign to eradicate for nearly 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>After rising in popularity in the 1990s, the spiritual practice, which features moral teachings centered on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, and meditative exercises, became a target of a brutal persecution campaign, resulting in millions of adherents being detained for their belief.<\/p>\n<p>A 2019 investigation by the London-based China Tribunal found detained Falun Gong practitioners to be the primary victim group for forced organ harvesting. Other prisoners of conscience, including Uyghurs in Xinjiang concentration camps, Tibetans, and House Christians are also targets, the tribunal said.<\/p>\n<p>Newly passed through the House, the bill is the first of its kind in the United States to combat the bloody act through legislative tools, a feat lauded by human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023 is one of the most significant international responses to the China Tribunal\u2019s Judgment to date,\u201d said Susie Hughes, executive director of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China. She expressed hope that more governments will be inspired to follow the U.S.\u2019s footsteps \u201cto ensure their own citizens are not caught up in the mass murder of innocents for their organs in China.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5159352\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Falun Dafa parade in Manhattan, New York City, on May 16, 2019. (Samira Bouaou\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Washington-based advocacy group Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation echoed this sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe passage of this legislation sends a clear message to not only China, but the rest of the world that the United States will not turn a blind eye to this atrocity, one that has been shamefully ignored by institutions and governments influenced by China for far too long,\u201d said the foundation\u2019s president Andrew Bremberg, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He urged the Senate to \u201cquickly take up this bill, pass it, and send it to President [Joe] Biden so it can become law.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018A Moral Issue That Transcends Politics\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), a former transplant surgeon, found the idea of forced organ harvesting both \u201chorrifying and repulsive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a moral issue that transcends politics,\u201d he told The Epoch Times. \u201cIt is a matter of good versus evil, and it is the responsibility of the United States to take the lead against this murderous practice, especially as it relates to the CCP.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3710476\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> A man jogs past Falun Gong practitioners using a mock organ harvesting display as part of their protest against the CCP and its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on May 2, 2008. (Tom Hanson\/The Canadian Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The House Democratic Caucus agreed that calling out the CCP\u2019s human rights abuses is one issue that crosses party lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe seek out\u2014as we always do\u2014to work with Republicans to find common ground on issues that help our communities, help our country, and send the right message on human rights, and this was one of those bills,\u201d the caucus chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) told reporters in a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Andr\u00e9 Carson (D-Ind.), a member of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, similarly committed to \u201cworking across the aisle to examine the very real human rights abuses committed by the Chinese government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the most disturbing is the tolerance and active support of illegal harvesting of organs from non-consenting individuals\u2014including as a way to perpetuate the genocide of the Uyghur people, which our committee held a hearing on last week. HR 1154 is a step forward in ensuring U.S. government resources are not taken advantage of to support this heinous practice,\u201d he told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<h2>Holding Perpetrators Accountable<\/h2>\n<p>Under the repressive environment in communist China, the targeted groups have largely been left feeling helpless under the persecution, even when the authorities tortured their loved ones to death and took their organs without their consent. Many, despite having escaped to the United States, continued to fear for their family in China, who face ever-present risks of harassment and arrests.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3487476\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Falun Gong practitioners take part in a candlelight vigil commemorating the 20th anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong in China, on the West Lawn of Capitol Hill on July 18, 2019. (Samira Bouaou\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s genocidal regime has subjected groups Beijing deems a threat, including Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners, to unimaginable human rights violations\u2014including credible allegations of forced organ harvesting,\u201d Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a co-signer of the Senate bill, told The Epoch Times. \u201cThe U.S. must hold the CCP accountable for these savage crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What the regime has done in its suppression of ethnic and religious groups is \u201cbeyond comprehension,\u201d said Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), who co-sponsored the House measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CCP is trampling on the rights of its own citizens in the most grotesque way imaginable\u2013forced organ harvesting of political prisoners. This is beyond the pale,\u201d he told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Aumua Amata Radewagen, a Republican representing American Samoa, said she has met with Uyghur refugees whose \u201cdevastating experiences and ongoing suffering\u201d saddened her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey describe unthinkable, heartbreaking, horrifying crimes, and Congress must continue to do its part to ensure that these victims are not forgotten and have a strong voice in America,\u201d she told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Last April, a peer-reviewed research paper published in the American Journal of Transplantation flagged 72 Chinese papers where the cause of death appears to be the organ transplant itself, causing the authors to call these Chinese doctors \u201cexecutioners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s medical ethics should not come as a surprise as the world fully knows about the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s genocide against the Uyghurs,\u201d Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) told The Epoch Times, going on to describe the forced organ harvesting as \u201ca repugnant practice carried out against minority groups in China, including the Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s imposition of fines and imprisonment on the offenders, as well as sanctions for those who \u201cfund, sponsor, or facilitate\u201d the abuse, are critical actions to \u201cdeter those engaged with this disgusting practice,\u201d said Hill. \u201cWe must continue to act in Congress to combat this barbaric practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the abuse has been an issue around the globe, China is one of the worst countries where forced organ harvesting runs rampant, said Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is that this important legislation will help deter this abhorrent practice and ensure that those who engage in this type of conduct cannot seek safe haven in the United States,\u201d he told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMurderous,\u201d \u201cgrotesque,\u201d \u201cimmoral,\u201d \u201cbarbaric.\u201d The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s forced organ harvesting has appalled Washington and united lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. 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