https://www.realclearwire.com ^ | 5/24/2024 | By Susan Crabtree
Posted on 5/24/2024, 8:30:27 PM by bitt
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has remained mum about her recent veto of legislation aimed at curbing China's gruesome forced organ-harvesting trade, which targets detained ethnic and religious minorities, mostly Uyghur Muslims, Tibetans, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners.
The April 10 veto has proponents of the legislation and human rights activists scratching their heads. Over the last year, Texas, Utah, and Idaho have enacted similar legislation, and legislatures in Missouri, Ohio, and North Carolina are debating similar measures. The bipartisan bills would prevent health insurance plans from reimbursing individuals for any organ transplants in China or other U.S. adversaries. They also would bar insurance payments for post-operative procedures related to organ transplants if the organ came from China or any other nation that funds or engages in forced organ harvesting.
Idaho's and Arizona's versions also included language prohibiting medical reimbursement for DNA and other genetic sequencing procedures conducted on sequencing devices from China and other adversary countries.
For decades, China has harvested prisoners’ organs even though the government initially asserted that all of its organ extractions were from voluntary donors. Yet, as far back as 2005, the top transplant doctor in China, then serving as the nation's vice minister of health, admitted that roughly 95% of all organ transplants come from prisoners killed for their body parts....
Thanks Jane for the information about Hobbs. The last election in AZ was a disaster for the state.