🚨In most countries, a heart transplant is the result of a catastrophic accident.
But in China, it can be scheduled in advance.
In the early 2000s, hospitals openly advertised wait times of just two to four weeks for vital organs—even though China did not have a national donation system.
A patient can make a phone call, set a date, and a matching organ will be ready.
Behind the scenes, prisoners—often Falun Gong practitioners or Uyghur Muslims—have already been blood-tested and tissue-typed. When needed, they are killed to order.
Over the past two decades, mounting evidence has exposed a system that operates on demand, turning human beings into a living organ bank.
And because of the West's almost total silence on this issue, it's only gotten worse.
This is the culmination of utilitarian bioethics, where individual people are treated as expendable parts—"for the greater good."
And this dangerous ideology is spreading to the West.
It's time to end all medical ties with a regime that engages in these crimes against humanity.
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