{"id":1907252,"date":"2023-03-30T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-senators-hear-witness-testimonies-on-organ-harvesting-in-china\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:50:46","slug":"texas-senators-hear-witness-testimonies-on-organ-harvesting-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-senators-hear-witness-testimonies-on-organ-harvesting-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senators Hear Witness Testimonies on Organ Harvesting in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ftexas-senators-hear-witness-testimonies-on-organ-harvesting-in-china%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=1907252&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-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0330\/2cc60b6c-4c99-4644-a3ce-03ba8e608fae\/audio.mp3?length=4902381&#038;duration=409\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses testified at the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee in favor of proposed legislation that would prohibit health benefit plans from paying for vital organs originating in China, where forced organ harvesting occurs.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, known as Senate Bill 1040, is sponsored by Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst. A similar House version of the bill has been referred to the Public Health Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Several guests shared their testimony about China\u2019s ruling communist party (CCP) forcibly taking organs from prisoners of conscience. Falun Gong practitioner Crystal Chen of Houston shared her experience of being persecuted and tortured in China for her beliefs. She and other Falun Gong believers were subjected to medical tests, including blood tests and EKGs, to establish a massive organ-matching database which enables the CCP to promise those with the financial resources short waiting times for vital organ transplants.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Howard Monsour, former medical director of the liver transplant program at the University of Texas Houston and former chief of hepatology at Methodist Hospital, also testified before the committee. He recounted a patient who went to China to seek a liver transplant and &#8220;ultimately died&#8221; because of the disease\u2019s advanced stage. Monsour said he later learned that China was &#8220;taking these prisoners and doing blood tests to find out what their matches are&#8221; and described in detail how the organs were harvested.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, the first non-symbolic measure to punish the CCP for its atrocities against the people of China, by a vote of 413-2.<\/p>\n<p>The next step for Senate Bill 1040 is for the Health and Human Services Committee to hear public testimony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday heard from witnesses who favor proposed legislation that\u00a0would prohibit health benefit plans from paying for vital organs originating in China, where forced organ harvesting occurs. \u201cSenate Bill 1040 is intended to combat the horrific practice of forced organ harvesting,\u201d said Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":1907253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4501,7388,6641,8452,3709,23148,3694,6993],"class_list":["post-1907252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-china","tag-harvesting","tag-hear","tag-organ","tag-senators","tag-testimonies","tag-texas","tag-witness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}