China's regime profits from a gruesome trade, harvesting organs from religious minorities while the U.S. Senate sits idle on a bill to challenge this barbarity.
The Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025, H.R. 1503, which passed the House with a staggering 406-1 vote, has been stuck in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for months, the Daily Caller reported.
Rep. Christopher Smith, the bill's sponsor from New Jersey, has fought this battle since 1998, exposing a practice that ballooned into a billion-dollar operation after the Chinese Communist Party cracked down on Falun Gong in 1999. His urgency is palpable, yet the Senate's inaction mocks the gravity of lives lost daily.
The early targets were Falun Gong practitioners, valued for their healthy lifestyles, with Smith noting their average age at execution was just 28. This isn't charity; it's a calculated slaughter for profit and power.
Undercover recordings by researchers David Matas and David Kilgour reveal the chilling reality, with a Chinese doctor boasting, "The supply of organs we have, we have every day. We do them every day." Such casual cruelty shows a system not just tolerating murder, but industrializing it.
Smith's hearings, nine in total, uncovered testimony from former officials who harvested organs from living prisoners to ensure quality. A 2024 report by Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting confirmed coerced medical exams and blood tests on detainees, prepping them for the butcher's block.
As Falun Gong numbers dwindle under this grim reaping, the regime has turned to Uyghur Muslims, Kazakhs, and now Christians as fresh sources. Smith warns that Christians, prized for their "pure lives," face a rising threat as other groups are exhausted.
Religious persecution in China isn't subtle; Beijing licenses clergy, rewrites scriptures, and bans minors from faith practices, aiming for cultural erasure. Smith calls it what it is: a deliberate march toward eradication of belief itself.
Beyond profit, Smith points to a darker motive, where party elites seek near-immortality by harvesting organs on demand from prisoner databases. A hot-mic exchange between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, joking about endless transplants, reveals a mindset that views human lives as spare parts.
This horror isn't confined to China's borders; wealthy Americans fuel it through "transplant tourism," paying hefty sums to jump waitlists. H.R. 1503 aims to crush this demand by tying organ trafficking to severe penalties, up to 20 years in prison and million-dollar fines.
Smith's strategy builds on existing laws like the Victims of Trafficking Act, signaling that the FBI will hunt down brokers and buyers with the same zeal as sex traffickers. "Maybe it deters it, and after a few prosecutions, it begins to make a real serious impact," he told the Caller, pinning hope on accountability.
The bill also targets foreign players with sanctions, asset freezes, and travel bans, aiming to choke the global trade. Yet, while the House acted decisively, the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Idaho's Sen. Jim Risch, lets this lifeline languish.
A committee spokesperson claimed Risch is "committed to countering" organ harvesting but noted the bill hasn't been raised for discussion. Such hollow assurances ring empty when researcher Ethan Gutmann estimates 25,000 to 50,000 annual victims, numbers that pile up as senators dawdle.
Smith labels the committee a legislative black hole, swallowing this bill just as it did the 2023 version, while tens of thousands perish. If Gutmann's figures hold, over 15,000 may have been killed since this latest bill stalled in June, a toll that shames every day of delay.
Passing H.R. 1503 won't dismantle China's death machine overnight, but Smith sees it as a piercing light into tyranny's shadow, a step to dry up the blood-soaked supply chain. Americans who cherish freedom and faith must demand the Senate act, lest silence become complicity in this modern genocide.
