{"id":1967416,"date":"2023-07-08T11:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-lawmakers-step-up-efforts-against-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T15:42:19","slug":"us-lawmakers-step-up-efforts-against-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-lawmakers-step-up-efforts-against-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers intensify efforts to combat forced 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=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-lawmakers-step-up-efforts-against-forced-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=1967416&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\/0707\/3b69982c-b731-4976-b281-d08057831ad2\/audio.mp3?length=6356781&#038;duration=530\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Chinese regime\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/awful-granddaughter-documents-grannys-assisted-suicide-in-creepy-tiktoks\/\" title=\"Granddaughter films granny's assisted suicide on TikTok.\">state-sponsored killing<\/a> for organs is \u201cabhorrent,\u201d and the United States needs to take the lead in ending it, said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an abhorrent practice, it is an outrage, and it cannot be countenanced,\u201d he told The Epoch Times. \u201cThere has to be consequences and accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Perry wants his bill, the Falun Gong Protection Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/4132\/cosponsors?s=1&#038;r=3\">H.R. 4132<\/a>), to be an impetus for change.<\/p>\n<p>Falun Gong\u2014a spiritual discipline teaching the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, along with a full meditation practice\u2014is a principal target of the regime\u2019s industrial-scale organ transplant abuse. For the past 24 years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has waged a brutal persecution campaign against the group.<\/p>\n<p>With a focus on these abuses, Mr. Perry\u2019s bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/meeting\/house\/116026\/documents\/BILLS-118HRih.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) aims to impose sanctions on complicit individuals and bar their presence in the United States. It would also make it a U.S. policy to avoid cooperation with communist China in the organ transplantation field, take necessary measures to compel the regime to end the abuse, and work with allies and multilateral institutions to highlight the persecution of Falun Gong and coordinate efforts to sanction the regime.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3147905\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/11\/15\/GettyImages-1044068134-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Perry, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus and serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sees the persecution of Falun Gong as a \u201cgenocide from the standpoint of a different belief system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The regime, he said, has \u201cused the tactics of other dictatorial and totalitarian regimes in the past to demonize and dehumanize their political opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they might all be Chinese, of Chinese origin, but because of their beliefs, they are losing their lives, and they are being tortured based on their faith, which is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Severing organ transplantation ties with China is crucial, according to Mr. Perry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need to be aware it\u2019s happening,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the 21st century\u2014they can\u2019t just turn their head away and continue to act like the relationship that they have with members of the communist party of China, or with China directly, is appropriate while they are doing these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Perry said he wants to make sure those involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-perry-designate-ccp-a-transnational-criminal-organization\/\" title=\"Rep. Perry: Designate CCP a Transnational Criminal Organization\">forced organ harvesting<\/a> \u201cin any way\u201d are held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody needs to be on notice. Not only communist officials in China, but also those who would be operating in the United States of America,\u201d as well as \u201cAmerican companies that would be seeking to participate and profit from these ill-gotten gains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To train CCP surgeons in organ transplantation or supply them with pharmaceuticals or medical expertise, he said, are \u201call part and parcel to the crime itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5381549\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/07\/07\/id5381549-EpochImages-2172917660-xl-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n<h2>Growing Pushback<\/h2>\n<p>In the United States, attention to the issue of forced organ harvesting has been growing.<\/p>\n<p>Texas in June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/first-ever-us-bill-to-counter-beijings-forced-organ-harvesting-signed-into-law-in-texas_5343285.html\">enacted a law<\/a> to ban health insurers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-lawmakers-step-up-efforts-against-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china\/\" title=\"US lawmakers intensify efforts to combat forced organ harvesting in China.\">funding organ transplant surgeries linked<\/a> to China. In March, the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/house-passes-first-ever-us-bill-to-punish-ccps-forced-organ-harvesting_5153155.html\">passed a bill<\/a> to punish perpetrators of forced organ harvesting by imposing property- and visa-blocking sanctions, revoking their passports, and imposing fines and criminal penalties, which now awaits the Senate\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Perry said he was gratified to see these developments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe states are almost always ahead of the federal government in recognizing circumstances that need to be addressed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>And, be it on the diplomatic, governance, economic, or entertainment fronts, the relationship with China cannot be business as usual, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t continue to just act like they\u2019re not occurring, and we can\u2019t continue to comport ourselves in the same fashion, because it would be tacit approval of these occurrences, and that simply cannot be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other lawmakers are also pushing for more action from America.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) and Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) on June 27 penned a letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/dunn.house.gov\/_cache\/files\/8\/d\/8d5c6e6f-27b6-4c57-a23c-18c0f163210a\/57E2FC01D8E344A29EF03388B4973D08.organ-harvestingfinal.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging his department to \u201ctake immediate action\u201d restricting participants in the CCP\u2019s forced organ harvesting industry from earning immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first-hand accounts I\u2019ve heard from victims and survivors of the CCP\u2019s inhumane actions are nothing short of horrific,\u201d said Mr. Dunn. \u201cAny Chinese health care professionals participating in organ harvesting are committing crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A State Department spokesperson told The Epoch Times, \u201cWe are deeply concerned by reports of forced organ harvesting targeting members of religious and ethnic minority groups detained in the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States continues to call on the PRC government to cease its depraved actions and to act consistent with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-caved-to-turkish-government-demands-blocked-group-to-protect-business-interests\/\" title=\"Facebook Caved To Turkish Government Demands, Blocked Group To Protect Business Interests\">human rights commitments<\/a> and all relevant medical and ethical standards and best practices, including acting in the best interests of the patient, informed consent, and respect for personhood,\u201d the spokesperson said, adding that the United States \u201cseeks to ensure that individuals who are or have been involv<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US must lead in stopping China&#8217;s state-sponsored organ killing, which Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) calls &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; and &#8220;outrageous.&#8221; He insists on consequences and accountability, stating that this practice cannot be tolerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":1967417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1967416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/1967416","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\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}