Tue Apr 12, 2022 – 3:13 pm EDTTue Apr 12, 2022 – 3:26 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A recently published study presents evidence that China has engaged in the execution of its political prisoners via organ extraction for at least 35 years.
The esteemed American Journal of Transplantation last week published a study after reviewing 310 papers by Chinese organ procurement surgeons. The study found that 71 of these papers, published between 1980 and 2015, indicated that a proper brain death determination (BDD) was not made before organ removal and transplantation.
According to study authors Matthew P. Robertson and Jacob Lavee, the lack of proper BDD suggests that organ removal was the actual cause of death for the donor involved, providing support to ongoing claims and reported evidence that China harvests organs from live prisoners.
The research duo explained that under the dead donor rule (DDR), “ethical procurement of vital organs from heart-beating donors requires the donor to be brain dead.” Such a brain death determination, they said, can only be made as a patient is “fully ventilated” via intubation.
If a study indicated that donors were intubated only after they were pronounced brain dead, or
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