By Dorothy Li
The innocent Chinese who were killed by the Chinese communist regime’s crimes of forced organ harvesting are not the only victims. When Americans choose to buy these organs in China, they can become inadvertent victims too.
Evidence that has emerged over the past two decades points to an unimaginable practice: that the Chinese regime has been secretly killing prisoners of conscience on a mass scale to supply its transplant industry, according to experts who attended the virtual conference hosted by the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), a Washington-based medical ethics advocacy group.
Texas Resident Became ‘Victim’
Dr. Howard Monsour, a Texas physician, shared a story of his patient who received a liver transplantation in China that was made available and performed “almost immediately.”
That was over a decade ago. Mr. Monsour was the chief of hepatology at Methodist Hospital in Houston and co-directed a liver cancer program. At his office, Mr. Monsour met a patient who had developed advanced liver cancer and was struggling to secure an organ transplant in the United States. As his survivability after liver transplantation was too low, the patient was turned down by several U.S. hospitals, including Mr. Monsour’s program.
However, a research student from China told the patient that he could arrange a liver transplant for the patient. The patient finally flew to China and got a new liver for $88,000.
“What was peculiar at the time was that it was almost as if he was having an appointment to get a transplant there,” Mr. Monsour said. In the United States, “it generally would take six months to a year before you’ll get a transplant with cancer.”
Mr. Monsour said he had no idea what and how the transplant system worked in China back then. But when he learned that the regime was killing prisoners to take their organs, Mr. Monsour suspected his patient became a “victim” of the regime’s practice.
“He was a victim. He’s not a victim as much as someone who was killed to give their liver, but he was an inadvertent victim in the United States that got a liver from someone else.”
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