A bill preventing UK citizens from receiving an organ transplant abroad without proper consent from the donor has passed its second reading on Friday. The bill also seeks to ban the display of imported bodies that do not meet the same consent requirement as those sourced in the UK. The Organ Tourism and Cadavers on Display Bill, introduced by Lord Philip Hunt of Kings Heath, aims to stop UK citizens from being complicit in the alleged forced organ harvesting in China on Falun Gong adherents, the Uyghurs, and others. “Organ donation is a precious act of saving a life, but forced organ harvesting is commercialised murder and, without doubt, among the worst of crimes,” Hunt told the House of Lords. According to NHS statistics, between 2010 and July 2020, 29 British patients were found to have received organ transplants in China. Hunt’s bill would ban a UK citizen from going …
UK Bill Banning Complicity in Forced Organ Harvesting Passes 2nd Reading
July 16, 2021
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