Commentary
Ordering a set of live, blinking eyeballs is easier than setting up an Instagram account in communist China.
China’s state-run transplant system operates in hospitals in a coordinated, bloody campaign of butchery of its own citizens, and it must stop, or the United States must cease engaging with China—period.
Patients in search of a new kidney or two can schedule their transplants on demand, sometimes even weeks in advance. A pool of live prisoners with healthy, beating hearts provide the supply. Without anesthesia, surgical removal of essential organs is a form of torture of the worst degree. This practice is a crime against humanity, almost too graphic and inhumane to believe it really could be happening just an ocean away.
The Falun Gong, a religious minority in China, doesn’t have to imagine the horror of forced organ harvesting. Its practitioners live it. They’re targeted by the Beijing regime for no crime other than practicing their faith and being a peaceful and spiritual minority group in a communist wasteland.
A testament to the scale of atrocities taking place, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) maintains no organ donation volunteer system as does the United States. That’s probably since the practice of forced organ harvesting is so widespread and commonplace, the CCP sees no need.
My bipartisan Falun Gong Protection Act (H.R. 1540), which recently passed the House of Representatives, takes concrete steps to put a stop to this atrocity. Evil must be confronted with clarity, not caution. Ceasing collaboration with the CCP should already be U.S. policy. The United States must lead other civilized nations in the imposition of sanctions for facilitating and/or participating in scheduled executions for forced organ harvesting. My bill also requires the U.S. Secretary of State to assess whether the CCP’s actions meet the legal definition of genocide or crimes against humanity, and mandates a comprehensive report on China’s organ transplant industry. As China’s primary trading partner, Americans have a right to know the manner in which organs are being harvested there, how many, and from whom.
As a result of my steadfast belief in the right to dignity of all humans, the inspiration for this bill came from years of work with members of the Falun Gong, and many Chinese dissidents persecuted relentlessly—and horrifically—simply for the right to practice their faith peacefully.
By Scott Perry
