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AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 27
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE BAKER
Printer's No. 23
Amend Resolution, page 2, line 4, by inserting after
"pathways"
, and the People's Republic of China has prevented
independent or impartial inspection, scrutiny and verification
of the transplant system
Amend Resolution, page 2, lines 5 through 30; page 3, lines 1
through 19; by striking out all of said lines on said pages and
inserting
WHEREAS, The People's Republic of China has not officially
repealed provisions implemented in 1984 which permit the
harvesting of organs from executed prisoners, therefore the use
of organs from executed prisoners remains legal; and
WHEREAS, The officially reported transplant numbers in China
increased threefold nationwide between 1999 and 2004, parallel
to the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong; and
WHEREAS, The current co-chairperson of the National Health
and Family Planning Commission's Human Organ and Transplant
Committee, Dr. Huang Jiefu, claimed that China would stop
sourcing organs from executed prisoners on January 1, 2015, yet
no official agency of the People's Republic of China has made
this declaration nor has Huang's claim been verified by
independent researchers; and
WHEREAS, Chinese officials have reclassified death row
prisoners as "ordinary citizens" with the right to donate their
organs, although the use of prisoner organs for transplant is
specifically banned by international medical organizations; and
WHEREAS, In May 2016, Huang Jiefu announced via state-run
media that China will increase the number of transplant centers
from 169 to 300 over the next five years; and
WHEREAS, Large discrepancies exist between the People's
Republic of China's officially reported transplant numbers and
those estimated by independent researchers; and
WHEREAS, Updated evidence estimates between 30,000 to 100,000
transplants occur annually in China without identified organ
sources; and
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WHEREAS, Updated evidence suggests up to 1.5 million Falun
Gong practitioners may have been killed for their organs since
2001; and
WHEREAS, Recipients for these transplants are Chinese
citizens or individuals from abroad, including from the United
States; and
WHEREAS, In 2015, the United States Commission on
International Religious Freedom's annual report again listed
China as a "country of particular concern," due to severe
violations of human rights and illegal organ harvesting
practices stating, "Imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners are
particularly targeted"; and
WHEREAS, In 2015 and 2016, the Congressional-Executive
Commission on China condemned ongoing unethical forced organ
harvesting practices in China; and
WHEREAS, In June 2016, the United States House of
Representatives passed House Resolution 343 expressing concern
over China's organ procurement from nonconsenting prisoners of
conscience, including from "large numbers of Falun Gong
practitioners and members of other religious and ethnic minority
groups"; and
Amend Resolution, page 3, line 30; page 4, lines 1 through 3;
by striking out all of said lines on said pages and inserting
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives call upon the
United States Government to initiate a prohibition for each
United States teaching hospital to train Chinese doctors in
transplant surgery until the People's Republic of China
facilitates independent, impartial inspections of its transplant
infrastructure; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives suggest that the
United States Government enact legislation that will prohibit
United States citizens from receiving organs abroad where organ
sourcing is not transparent and traceable according to
internationally accepted guidelines; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives request the
medical community of this Commonwealth to caution patients
against traveling to China for organs; and be it further
Amend Resolution, page 4, line 15, by striking out the period
after "China" and inserting
; and be it further
RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
the President of the United States, the Vice President of the
United States and the Secretary of State of the United States
and to each member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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