Statement of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
On The People's Liberation Army's
Harvest of Organs From Executed Prisoners
ABC News exposes, once again, the horrors of the Chinese regime and the People's Liberation Army. Sadly, it is not a surprise as much as it is a confirmation of the government's abuse of power and its people.
We have no way of knowing what crimes these prisoners have committed. There is no rule of law, no appeal process. In a matter of days a suspect can go from the jail cell to the execution field.
Are these people, men and women, simply being executed for the value of their parts? These people are being carefully put to death in order to make it easy for their organs to be harvested.
This is a blood harvest, a harvest of shame that mocks the very principles that are the bedrock of any law-abiding nation. For all its proclamations of an egalitarian society, here is the People's Liberation Army selling organs to those who can afford to pay. What's a kidney worth today? $30,000 says the PLA.
Since 1990, ABC estimates 10,000 kidneys have been sold, totaling tens of millions of dollars in blood money for the Chinese government. To further show their total disregard for the law, many of these transactions for organs have been occurring here on our soil. This is an affront to the American people and our sensibilities.
I support my colleagues, and join with them in offering a Resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that China immediately stop this practice of harvesting and transplanting organs for profit from prisoners that it executes. And that those who facilitate this practice in the United States be prosecuted, and that the President bar from entry into the United States, Chinese government officials who have knowledge of this gruesome practice.
