The bill was introduced by Republican Representative Chris Smith who described the practice as 'crimes against humanity.'
The Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act would allow the imposition of sanctions on anyone whom the president determines"funds, sponsors or otherwise facilitates forced organ harvesting or trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs" and this would include a criminal fine of up to $1 million and imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both.
Speaking on the House floor in favor of his bill on Monday, Smith said that tens of thousands of people each year are killed in China in order to harvest their organs, including practitioners of the Falun Gong religious faith and members of the Uyghur ethnic minority.and his Chinese Communist Party, between 60,000 to 100,000 young victims—average age 28—are murdered in cold blood to steal their internal organs," Smith said.
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