(Clearwisdom.net) International Conference of the American Thoracic Society was held on May 18 to 23, 2007 in San Francisco. More than 14,000 clinicians and researches from 90 countries gathered at Moscone Center to attend the six-day academic exchange. On May 20, Sunday, a number of Falun Gong practitioners from the Bay Area took this opportunity to clarify the facts about Falun Gong's being practiced in over 80 countries and the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China to the attendees.
Telling the attendees of the conference about the CCP's atrocities
Many doctors from China attended the American Thoracic Society Annual Conference. According to a doctor from a province in China, nearly a hundred doctors from his province came to attend the conference.
Doctor Fan from China felt puzzled upon learning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is still persecuting Falun Gong. He thought it had passed since the media in China has no longer mentioned it, and nobody mentioned it again. He mentioned that a doctor in his hospital once practiced Falun Gong. Since Jiang started the persecution of Falun Gong, the doctor was under control and suppression.
When Doctor Fan learned about the CCP's atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, he was shocked. He said, "The CCP is so bad, too cruel!"
Doctor Fan said that he was not involved in organ transplants, but he knew that whenever the police in China executes detainees, hospitals would be notified to go to the scene for organs. This has been an open "secret" in China.
When Doctor Fan learned about the CCP's brutality and the current tide of quitting the CCP, he immediately announced his withdrawal from the CCP's Youth League and Young Pioneer.
Director of lung transplantation at University of Virginia, associate professor Mark Robbins, said to this reporter that the medical center where he works conducts about 35 lung transplant operations per year. The waiting time for the patient to obtain an organ is about six months or so. The source of the organs are from brain dead persons, such as people who were in serious car accidents. The deceased must have consented of donating organs after death, usually the donor's driving license specifies this.
Mr. Robbins expressed his concern over the cases of live organ harvesting taking place in China. It is unethical to harvest organs from detained death row prisoners. Moreover, Mr. Robbins said that even though the waiting time for organs in China is short, he did not encourage his patients to go to China for organ transplants. He said that there are many problems with that. He accepted the investigation report written by the Canadian investigation team regarding the CCP harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit.
Doctor Peter from London said he had heard about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, but did not know that the CCP even harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners to sell. Peter said, "Communism is tyranny, the government forces people to do things, but individuals do not have any rights." He hoped that China will resolve these problems and he wants to revisit China.
Doctor Andrew from Singapore saw the display boards depicting the CCP harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and said that it is a tragedy that the CCP harvests organs from living people. He said, "You open up such a forum for people to learn about the facts, this is so wonderful."
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng who passed out materials outside the conference site on Sunday said that she was very sad thinking that Falun Gong practitioners in China have even had their organs harvested when they were still alive for upholding their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." She hoped people would learn about facts, and help stop the atrocities taking place in China.
Category: Organ Harvesting
