Organ trafficking

REP. JOE PITTS: China harvests human organs

In 2014 China said that it would stop harvesting organs from state prisoners. In 2015, we found out that promise was a ruse.

The country’ng any organs from prisoners by January of the next year.

But then China went back, and said (in essence), as long as the prisoners say yes to their organs being donated, it counts as a citizen donation. Dr. Huang told the Beijing Times, “Once the organs from death row prisoners who have voluntarily donated are included in our national distribution system, they are counted as voluntary citizen donations.”

The probles deputy minister of public health, Dr. Jiefu Huang, had announced in 2014 that China would stop harvestim is that we have no way of knowing if these “donations” are really voluntary. When you have a country like China where hospitals are advertising online that you can come and they will get you a liver within weeks, the likelihood is that they’re going out, finding prisoners that will match these transplant tourists that are willing to pay top dollar for an organ, and then executing them.