Forced Organ Harvesting Is ‘Wholesale Slaughter’ in China, Lawmaker Says

WASHINGTON—The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting is “wholesale slaughter,” said a lawmaker at a congressional hearing highlighting the issue. Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa), at a March 20 panel event exploring ways to counter forced organ harvesting, said he can “think of no act more heinous than taking a political prisoner, strapping them to a medical bed, and stealing their body parts from the inside out.” The gruesome practice, according to experts, happens routinely in China as part of a billion-dollar industry. An independent London-based people’s tribunal concluded in 2019 that forced organ harvesting has happened for years in China “on a significant scale.” According to the tribunal’s findings, adherents of Falun Gong—a spiritual practice that has faced harsh persecution in communist China since 1999—have been identified as a major source of organ supply....