The only thing
different is that they are no longer pretending that this does not exist. After that it is a simple step to been guilty
of having convenient DNA, been healthy and been of no importance. If those criteria are been met, then we need
a legal excuse to harvest your organs.
This is no different that hog husbandry.
The problem of
course is that this mentality will emerge.
It unfortunately makes Hitler and his cohorts of look like pretty
tame. That is what makes the Chinese
leadership cringe. They know that their
reputations will be destroyed also.
What is
unfortunately true is that demand for organs is far ahead of likely supply
however easy we make the rules. The good
news is that this will change within the next decade as manufactured organs
come on stream. When that happens the
problem will actually go away.
You can be sure
less sanctioned methods are been used in India for the same reasons.
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Chinese Transplant Official Says There’s No Plan to Stop Using Prisoner Organs
Wang Haibo, an
unofficial spokesperson on China’s organ transplant policies, recently told a
well-known German journalist that the Chinese regime had no intention of
announcing a schedule for weaning itself off the use of organs from executed
prisoners.
“The question is, ‘When can China solve the problem of the
shortage of donor organs?’ I wish we could end it tomorrow. But it requires a
process,” he said in a radio program on ARD, a major German public broadcast network.
“Many things are
beyond our control,” he added. “Therefore, we can not announce any time
schedule.”
The journalist,
Ruth Kirchner, said that Wang agreed to the interview “after long hesitation,
because organ donation connected to the death penalty is a sensitive issue in
China.”
Wang, director of
the China Organ Transplant Response System Research Center at the Ministry of
Health, would not say how many organs come from executed prisoners. Some
outside groups suggest that there are 4,000 executions per year, though only a
portion of those would yield organs viable for transplant.
One of the major
disputes that international Western medical groups have with the Chinese
authorities is its practice of harvesting the organs from executed prisoners.
In the way this is
generally meant by the Chinese authorities, the term refers to organs from
criminals who are sentenced to death and have their organs extracted after they
are executed given that, at least in theory, they and their families have
signed a consent waiver. Families are also entitled to compensation for
agreeing to the organ extraction.
Both The
Transplantation Society and the World Health Organization forbid the use of
organs from executed prisoners, because they say that there can be no true
consent from a prisoner on death row.
Many analysts also
point to a more sinister source of prisoner organs: those that come from
executed prisoners of conscience, who are not formally sentenced to death
through the courts for any crime, but who are held in arbitrary detention,
blood-tested, and killed for their organs as required.
Reports emerged in
2006 and 2007 of the widespread harvesting of practitioners of Falun Gong, a
spiritual discipline heavily persecuted by the Chinese regime. The extent to
which the practice persists to this day is unknown, due to the lack of
transparency in Chinese data and the secrecy of the persecution.
Wang’s remarks are
the second set of high-profile comments from a top Chinese transplant official
that openly sets forth what appears to be a new official public stance on the
use of prisoner organs.
In March, Former Chinese Vice Minister for Health Huang Jiefu said that hospitals and
judicial authorities should form ties in order to source organs.
These new remarks
have been a break from what was the previously accepted, and stated, official
view. For the last six years, and in particular the last two, the Chinese had
promised to move to a system of purely voluntary donation, and vowed repeatedly
that it would phase out the use of prisoner organs.
In an interview with the World Health Organization in late 2012, Wang himself affirmed this shift in policy by China. “While we cannot
deny the executed prisoner’s right to donate organs, an organ transplantation
system relying on death-row prisoners’ organs is not ethical or sustainable,”
he said. “Now there is consensus among China’s transplant community that the
new system will relinquish the reliance on organs from executed convicts.”
That has evidently
changed, to the consternation of international transplant officials who for
years practiced quiet diplomacy with China in an effort to bring it around.
A letter by two major international medical organizations,
including The Transplantation Society, said that the Chinese practice of taking
organs from executed prisoners was “scorned by the international
community.”
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