Two
new films, one a documentary and one a drama based on the same facts,
expose one of the most horrific markets operating today: Communist China’s
selling of organs harvested from prisoners of conscience.
Ten thousand “transplant tourists” travel annually to
communist China, where they pay top dollar to get organs transplanted on
demand. The Boston Globe’s Jeff
Jacoby summarizes
how China became the go-to destination for desperate patients on waiting lists:
China was killing enormous numbers
of imprisoned men and women by strapping them down to operating tables, still
conscious, and forcibly extracting their organs — and then delivering those
organs to the hospital transplant centers that have become a major source of
revenue. Chinese officials claim that organs come from violent criminals on
death row. But “Human Harvest” makes it clear that most of those killed are
peaceful citizens persecuted for their beliefs: Tibetans, Uighurs, Christians —
and, above all, practitioners of Falun Gong, a Buddhist-style spiritual
movement of peaceful meditation and ethical commitment.
Free countries may not be able to stop this horrific
practice, but they could reduce the demand for these organs by allowingfree people to exercise the choice to sell their organs. Currently, free
countries rely only on altruism, which has resulted in severe shortages of
organs and black markets.
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