By John Stonestreet with Roberto Rivera Last week, as the world focused attention on the Hong Kong protests, a report came out that gruesomely underscored why the protesters felt led to protest. The report, issued by a London-based panel of international and medical experts, was entitled “Forced Organ Harvesting of Prisoners of Conscience in China.” …
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By Wesley J. Smith In the China tyranny, political prisoners such as Falon Gong practitioners, are tissue typed, killed, and harvested. Their organs are sold for exorbitant prices to desperate people who travel to China to save their own lives at the cost of another’s. China has promised to stop this gruesome trade, but hasn’t. …
Continue reading "Not All Immoral Organ Harvests Bother Transplant Community"By Dave Andrusko There we were last night watching Fox News when we learned Fox News had obtained a letter sent by Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd to the Senate Judiciary Committee formally requested unredacted documents from the Committee supporting a December 2016 report titled “Human Fetal Tissue Research.” As …
Continue reading "Dept. of Justice investigating Planned Parenthood and others’ involvement in the sale of fetal tissue"By Dave Andrusko The photos in the New York Post (even if only simulated) are blood curdling. Along with the accompanying story, they are the most recent reminder of “The grim reality of human organ harvesting in China.” (The article originated elsewhere and was reprinted in the Post.) We last posted about this scandal in …
Continue reading "China, the Low Countries, and lethal organ harvesting"By Wesley J. Smith This isn’t happening here–yet. But many in organ transplant medicine and bioethics want permission to kill the profoundly cognitively disabled for their organs, either by lethal injection and then harvesting, or by the process itself. The latest example was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. From the article by bioethicist …
Continue reading "Organ Harvesting the Unconscious"By Xavier Symons Criticism of alleged forced organ harvesting in China reached fever pitch last week as the 26th International Congress of The Transplantation Society convened for the first time on Chinese soil. The Congress, which opened in Hong Kong on Wednesday, features a number of presentations from Chinese researchers, including former Vice-Minister for Health …
Continue reading "Transplant doctors clash over Chinese organ donor system"By Michael Cook The issue of harvesting organs from political prisoners in China to supply the country’s more than 160 transplant centres is not just controversial, but explosive. So it is a bit odd that an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME)published online last year by two authors from Macau and one from …
Continue reading "Chinese policy on organ transplants is just smoke and mirrors, say critics"By Wesley J. Smith For years, I have documented the growing calls within bioethics and organ transplant medicine to kill the dead donor rule to allow live organ harvesting. Over at First Things, I note that euthanasia and organ harvesting have been conjoined in Belgium and Netherlands (and probably soon, Canada). And now, some doctors …
Continue reading "Euthanasia by Live Organ Harvesting"By Wesley J. Smith Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. — Leon Kass [The New Republic, June 2, 1997] The ethics of medicine aren’t what they used to be. Sanctity of life? That’s so passé. The Hippocratic Oath? Fuggettaboudit! The modern healthcare system is expected to embrace properly utilitarian perspectives. Take euthanasia …
Continue reading "Euthanasia by organ harvesting"By Wesley J. Smith In 1993, my first anti-euthanasia article published in Newsweek, warned that if society ever embraced assisted suicide, we would eventually couple medicalized killing with organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” That is now happening in Netherlands and Belgium, where doctors are on the lookout for mentally ill and people with …
Continue reading "Push to Euthanize by Organ Harvesting"By Dave Andrusko I don’t think it’s a state secret that President Obama’s ego is (shall we say) secure which may account for what seems to the outsider (that would be me) a stunning lack of awareness of context when says various truly remarkable things. Just this afternoon a friend at National Right to Life …
Continue reading "President Obama condemns harvesting organs in Africa, has nothing to say about harvesting baby body organs in America"WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of state right-to-life organizations, issued the following statement in response to a release today, by a group called The Center for Medical Progress, of a hidden-camera video purporting to show remarks by Deborah Nucatola, senior director for medical services for the Planned Parenthood Federation …
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