LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGNS
Everyone can also help China’s prisoners of conscience by joining a worldwide effort to end the horrific practice of forced organ harvesting, which particularly victimizes China’s religious minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, and house church Christians.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
You can get involved by contacting your elected legislators and asking them to adopt laws against forced organ harvesting.
Two such examples are available below and can be used as models. For further information about this atrocity, please see the resources that follow:
Canada Parliamentary Bill S-223 (adopted):
Public Bill (Senate) S-223 (44-1) - Royal Assent - An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking in human organs) - Parliament of Canada
U.S. House Resolution HR 1154 (passed in House, received in Senate and referred to Committee on Foreign Relations)
House Resolution HR 1154, “Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023”
Additional information
House passes Smith’s legislation to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s ghoulish industry of stealing young people’s internal organs > READ PRESS RELEASE
Forced Organ Harvesting in China: Examining the Evidence > POST BY THE TOM LANTOS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Additional Reading Resources
China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Demands U.S. Response
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’s transplant sector, unconstrained by rigorous ethical rules, found a more expedient solution. China created a thriving transplant industry, the world’s second largest, based on a supply of organs forcibly harvested from executed prisoners – most likely prisoners of conscience > READ MORE
The CCP Wages a Second Genocide—Against Falun Gong
Last year, both the Trump and Biden administrations determined that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging genocide against Uyghurs and other mostly ethnic Muslim communities in Xinjiang. This is a human-rights watershed, given that this atrocity is ongoing and authored by a powerful, sitting government that vehemently denies and covers up the charge. With this precedent and using similar sources of evidence, a second CCP genocide — one against the spiritual meditation group Falun Gong — is long overdue for recognition. > READ MORE
A State Department Report on Organ Harvesting That the CCP Could Love
For each of the past 26 years, the U.S. State Department has briefly mentioned the egregious practice of forced organ harvesting in China in its congressionally mandated annual international human rights reports.
This year’s chapter on China creates a new sub-section, titled “Organ Harvesting,” which held the promise for, finally, some solid coverage of the mountain of documentation now accumulated on this atrocity.
> READ MORE