The president would have to impose sanctions on individuals or entities that facilitate forced organ harvesting — the removal of an organ from a person via coercion, abduction, fraud, or abuse of power — under
The measure responds to reports that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out state-sponsored harvesting of human organs, particularly from Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs and other Central Asians in concentration camps, according to a Feb. 28 news release from Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), the bill’s sponsor and chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
The bill “is an extremely important ...