HHS Vows to Break Ties With China’s Organ Transplant System Over Ongoing Abuse Concerns

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has called on America to cut ties with China’s transplantation system over ongoing concerns about organ sourcing. “In China, forced organ harvesting of prisoners has continued for over 20 years. To affirm the sanctity of human life, America must sever its ties with China’s organ transplant system,” the department wrote in a post on X, pointing to an article published on The Baltimore Sun titled “America’s complicity in China’s organ harvesting.” The HHS in July uncovered issues with a federally funded organization and identified more than 100 cases in which organ procurement occurred when patients showed signs of life or had no cardiac time marked down....