My life is precious - but not yours.
Organ harvesting in China continues.
More sweet news from China again today - some sources are calling their harvest of human organs for the purpose of transplant to other humans a ‘holocaust‘.
“The situation in China is that donors are waiting in line for a recipient, said Dr. Trey, adding that there must be a pool of living donors. He mentioned an ad found in April 2006, published in a Chinese newspaper, advertising: “Twenty organ transplants free of charge” at the Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, for which people could register by calling the hospital’s hotline.
Organ transplants are a lucrative business in China, with prices ranging between $USD 30,000 and $USD 180,000 for an organ. According to the data collected by the organization, these prices were available on the China International Transplantation Network Assistance Center website, but have since been removed.”- Holocaust
I have already heard, that when the Chinese execute prisoners, often while they are still alive, they extract their organs for sale in transplant operations. Now it seems, they are using political prisoners for this purpose - those who are not sentenced to die. I wonder who the market caters to?
Embryonic stem cell research is a similar phenomenon - although celebrities like Michael J. Fox refuse to acknowledge an embryo is a human being. Or maybe he and others with money just don’t care.
Human life is cheap. It’s a strange mentality that believes one’s own life is precious but the other persons life, disquised as an embryo or criminal in a Chinese prison, doesn’t matter.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
Isn’t this like Darwinism for the (not-so- )thinking masses? Survival of the fittest…the more affluent, politically powerful, least moral, etc?
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:29 am
[…] Not bothered enough? How about the harvesting of organs from live political prisoners? (H/T Abbey Roads) […]
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Once upon a time, dissecting human corpses for studying purposes were considered evil and unethical. Now it’s called anatomy, which is the foundation of the modern medicine. Let’s leave science alone to scientists, who are a huge community and not all evil. They have moral conscience too, just like you and me.
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Alex, huh?
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I thought it was the “grave robbing” of human corpses that were used for study were considered evil and unethical …