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Ending ‘Vampire’ Tourism in China
Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 1 | Gordon G. Chang

Posted on 09/01/2009 2:55:20 PM PDT by AJKauf

Did Beijing just take China off the “vampire” tourism circuit? And end state-sanctioned mass murder?

Last Wednesday, the official China Daily reported the launch of pilot projects in ten areas that will eventually lead to a nationwide organ-donation system. The system is intended to stop “transplant tourism,” which in recent years has created an outcry among Chinese citizens who have seen foreign “vampires” troll their country for body parts, easily outbidding locals for transplants.

Health Vice-Minister Huang Jiefu, at the time he announced the pilot projects, indicated that China is getting out of the business of taking organs from executed prisoners. Such individuals, Huang said, are “definitely not a proper source for organ transplants.”

If officials stop taking kidneys and livers from the corpses of the executed, there will be no Chinese organs available to anyone, whether foreign tourist or Chinese citizen...

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1 posted on 09/01/2009 2:55:20 PM PDT by AJKauf
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To: AJKauf

The post right before this was about zombies. Now vampires? Has Halloween come early, or have the Obamacrats gathered for their rituals?


2 posted on 09/01/2009 3:09:36 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: AJKauf
Whatever you do don't get a Chinese stomach transplant.

Whatever you eat, one hour later you'll still be hungry.

3 posted on 09/01/2009 3:42:01 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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