Much commentary has emerged on the recent conference on combating organ trafficking and transplant tourism hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican.
Professor Maria F. Singh MD of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) notes that participant Dr. Huang Jiefu of China:
violated the ethical principles governing the World Medical Association, the World Health Organization, the United Nations, The Transplantation Society and the Declaration of Istanbul. As a high-ranking official of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and liver transplant surgeon, he designed and implemented a vast system of state-sanctioned organ harvesting from executed prisoners and prisoners of conscience across China. He admits that virtually all transplanted organs up until recently came from executed prisoners, and ... that he himself was personally engaged in this practice, transplanting more than 500 livers during years when there were no voluntary organ donors at all.
Anyone waiting for a new transplantation law in China must acknowledge that any notion of Chinese “law” is fictitious. Clive Ansley of Canada, who practiced law in Shanghai for 14 years until the mid-2000s, states:
China is a brutal police state…Our position is based on irrefutable evidence of what is actually happening…we can prove the statistics on actual transplants carried out; we can prove that these numbers are utterly irreconcilable with the available sources, in the absence of mass murder perpetrated against prisoners of conscience. We are interested only in the evidence of what is actually happening; we have only a passing interest in the content of Chinese legislation attempting to paper over reality, and we have no interest whatsoever in the palpable falsehoods of Huang Jiefu.
As spokesperson for China’s organ transplant network, Huang is barred from providing an honest account of the source of organs for transplantation. By inviting him, the Vatican was implicitly endorsing a murderous large scale procurement of organs underway across China since at least 2001. Organ trafficking today is certainly an international black market scourge, but it appears to be only in China that innocent citizens are killed for their organs by the government and its agents.
