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http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/shen-yun-on-tour/organ-tourism-blood-on-australians-hands-366730.html

Australian Government must not be complicit in organ tourism, says legislator
Daniel Granger

When a transplant donor is a person overseas who has been commercially exploited or even worse, effectively killed to provide an organ, then in the absence of effective legislation to criminalise this, all Australians pay the price for silence and government lawmakers risk becoming becoming complicit.

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