“We've been lying to ourselves so long, we don't know the truth when we see it,” says international human rights lawyer David Matas. For nearly two decades now, he has been one of the leading researchers examining the evidence of the Chinese regime harvesting the organs of living Falun Gong practitioners. “The medical profession here in the U.S. needs to start looking at the facts and not simply accept Chinese government statements about how good they are at face value,” Matas says. The U.S. House of Representatives is currently voting on the Stop Organ Harvesting Act, which imposes sanctions on people involved in forced organ trafficking and gives the State Department power to revoke their passports if they are convicted of such crimes. Several countries, including Canada, Israel, and Spain, have passed extraterritorial legislation that allows for the prosecution of perpetrators of forced organ harvesting, including brokers and advertisers that facilitate the practice. But the United States has not. “Obviously, if you kill somebody in the U.S. or the organs, you're going to be prosecuted. It should be the same if you leave the country and then come back,” Matas says.