Texas Doctor Speaks Out Against Forced Organ Harvesting in China
A Texas physician is sounding the alarm over the Chinese communist regime’s practice of forced organ harvesting.
Dr. Howard Monsour, who was among the first doctors involved in liver transplantation in the United States in the 1980s, testified last month at the Texas Senate in support of a resolution condemning the “vile practice of forcibly removing human organs for transplant.” The resolution was unanimously adopted by the state Senate on April 15.
A decade ago, Monsour had a patient who developed liver cancer that had spread too far for him to have transplant surgery. He was turned down by several transplant hospitals in Texas. But a Chinese acquaintance told the patient that he could get a liver transplant for $88,000 in China. Against Monsour’s advice, the man went to China and received liver transplant surgery. He ended up passing away from the cancer eight months later.
Texas Senate Passes Resolution to Curb China’s Forced Organ Harvesting: ‘There Needs to Be a Global Outcry’
Texas Senate lawmakers have unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the Chinese regime’s “vile practice of forcibly removing human organs for transplant” while urging the United States to take a more aggressive stance on the issue.
“We want to go on record as saying: ‘No, this is happening, and we condemn it,’” state Sen. Angela Paxton, the primary author of the resolution, told The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD on April 21.
Part of the motivation for Paxton, who has spent at least two years advancing the cause, was the lack of public attention on the organ transplant abuse, which had led many people to dismiss it as “rumors.”