Bipartisan Senate Bill Aims to Punish Beijing for Forced Organ Harvesting

Senators of both parties are attempting to hold the Chinese Communist Party responsible for stealing organs from prisoners of conscience.

S.761The Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act (also known as the Act to Stop Forced Organ Harvesting) would allow the State Department to deny passports or revoke visas to anyone involved with forced organ harvesting. It would require the government to report on illicit acts in foreign countries every year and impose sanctions against facilitators.

“There is growing evidence that the Chinese Communist Party has and continues to harvest organs from persecuted religious groups, prisoners of conscience, and inmates,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who co-led the legislation with Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) According to a March 9 press release. He also stated that the company is committed to ensuring that all employees are safe. “past time to hold Beijing accountable for these heinous acts.”

Co-chair of Senate Human Rights Caucus Coons has described forced organ extraction as “cruel and immoral,” It is important to note that it targets often “ethnic and religious minorities and some of the most vulnerable groups in the world.”

“I am proud to re-introduce the bipartisan Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act that will empower the Biden administration to take action against those who practice this despicable crime,” He said.

The Version for the House After having been unanimously approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, February 28, the bill is now being sent to the floor.

According to independent findings by the China Tribunal in London, forced organ harvesting was a state-sanctioned program worth $1 billion annually in communist China.

After more than a decade of investigation, the tribunal concluded in 2019 that the practice had been ongoing.On a large scale” Source primarily from Falun Gong followers in prison. Since 1993, the Chinese Communist Party has brutally persecuted this faith group that embodies core values of truthfulness and compassion.

Dr. Torsten Trey is the founder of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting. So-called Falun Gong practitioners have been subjected to severe abuse. “cold genocide,” The description of the “destruction of a group that takes place but in a slow motion and slow-moving pattern.”

Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., is the House bill’s chief sponsor. He said that he hopes it will stop Americans from going overseas to receive organ transplants by unintentionally aiding human rights violations.

“Anyone who does get a transplantation should be very aware of its source to ensure the dead person voluntarily offered their organ—be it a heart, liver or whatever it might be—[and] that they were indeed dead at the time of the organ transplant,” He has previously spoken to The Epoch Times sister media NTD.

“But in China, everything is reversed. They go and pick and ‘cull’—as they call it—these very healthy people, and the Falun Gong practitioners are extraordinarily healthy because of their religious practices, because of their lifestyle, so they become victimized by the Chinese Communist Party.”

The bill was also signed by 13 other senators, including Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Cory Booker and Mike Braun (R–Ind.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Angus King (I-Maine), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.).