Uploaded July 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
The US should lead by example and help stop abusive transplant practices in China—that's the message from a recent forum in Washington DC. Doctors from a medical advocacy group want US lawmakers to adopt House Resolution 281. Among other things, it would press the Chinese regime to immediately end its practice of harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience.
[Dr. Damon Noto, Doctors against Forced Organ Harvesting]
"Probably in the past 13 years, the transplant community became very alarmed about what was going on in China."
Alarmed, because independent investigators estimate tens of thousands of persecuted Falun Gong practitioners have been killed, their organs removed and sold to domestic and overseas patients.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a Chinese spiritual discipline. Since 1999, its adherents have been subjected to extensive persecution by the Chinese regime.
In 2006, allegations surfaced that military hospitals were killing them for their organs.
[Dr. Mai He, Executive Director, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting]
"Time-wise, the increase in number of organ transplant in China actually paralleled with the persecution."
In June, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Representative. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) introduced House Resolution 281 in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
[Dr. Damon Noto, Spokesman, Doctors against Forced Organ Harvesting]
"When the US Congress makes a motion, makes a resolution, it makes it easier for other organizations, medical organizations, countries, states, to enact their own regulations and laws. A lot of the time they follow suit, they see what the US is doing, and then they move. If we can get this moving, it can actually impact, globally, many things.
Guest speaker at the forum, Levi Browde, says the effects would even reach into China.
[Levi Browde, Executive Director, Falun Dafa Information Center]
"Inside China, we've seen resolutions like this where people literally are persecutors, in prison camps, police officers, see that the United States Congress is stating things so explicitly, it'll give them real pause to do what they're doing."
House Resolution 281 would be the first in the US to press the Chinese regime to end forced organ harvesting. It also wants Congress to warn US citizens that if they go to China for an organ, it may have come from a prisoner of conscience.
Once the Resolution gets enough co-sponsors, it can be introduced to the House floor for voting.
NTD News, Washington DC.
The US should lead by example and help stop abusive transplant practices in China—that's the message from a recent forum in Washington DC. Doctors from a medical advocacy group want US lawmakers to adopt House Resolution 281. Among other things, it would press the Chinese regime to immediately end its practice of harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience.
[Dr. Damon Noto, Doctors against Forced Organ Harvesting]
"Probably in the past 13 years, the transplant community became very alarmed about what was going on in China."
Alarmed, because independent investigators estimate tens of thousands of persecuted Falun Gong practitioners have been killed, their organs removed and sold to domestic and overseas patients.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a Chinese spiritual discipline. Since 1999, its adherents have been subjected to extensive persecution by the Chinese regime.
In 2006, allegations surfaced that military hospitals were killing them for their organs.
[Dr. Mai He, Executive Director, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting]
"Time-wise, the increase in number of organ transplant in China actually paralleled with the persecution."
In June, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Representative. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) introduced House Resolution 281 in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
[Dr. Damon Noto, Spokesman, Doctors against Forced Organ Harvesting]
"When the US Congress makes a motion, makes a resolution, it makes it easier for other organizations, medical organizations, countries, states, to enact their own regulations and laws. A lot of the time they follow suit, they see what the US is doing, and then they move. If we can get this moving, it can actually impact, globally, many things.
Guest speaker at the forum, Levi Browde, says the effects would even reach into China.
[Levi Browde, Executive Director, Falun Dafa Information Center]
"Inside China, we've seen resolutions like this where people literally are persecutors, in prison camps, police officers, see that the United States Congress is stating things so explicitly, it'll give them real pause to do what they're doing."
House Resolution 281 would be the first in the US to press the Chinese regime to end forced organ harvesting. It also wants Congress to warn US citizens that if they go to China for an organ, it may have come from a prisoner of conscience.
Once the Resolution gets enough co-sponsors, it can be introduced to the House floor for voting.
NTD News, Washington DC.
