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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation in the News => Topic started by: Clark on September 05, 2013, 04:13:50 PM
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http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/276208-german-newspaper-points-to-western-complicity-in-organ-trade-in-china/
http://www.zeit.de/2013/11/China-Transplantationen-Organhandel/komplettansicht
German Newspaper Points to Western Complicity in Organ Trade in China
By Gisela Sommer
The West is deeply enmeshed in China’s questionable and lucrative organ trade, a major German newspaper says.
In China, executed prisoners’ organs are removed and sold for transplantation, including into patients from the West. Western hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and doctors support Chinese transplantation centres without asking questions, according to an investigative report in the German newspaper, Die Zeit.
The German-language report, titled “Herz auf Bestellung,” or “Heart to Order,” and written by Martina Keller, said it intends to expose China’s practice of execution on demand, and to shine a light on doctors who go against the ethics of their profession.
As they maneuver on a narrow path “between co-operation and complicity,” participants become entangled by moral conflicts, professional ambitions, and money, with many preferring to remain silent about the issue, writes Keller.
“A human being dies, just in time, so that another can continue to live. In the Chinese transplant system, this is possible. In the name of progress, in the name of making money—including Western money,” states the report.
The article poses the question, “Where must the West draw its boundaries so as to not become an accomplice?”
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