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Wednesday, May 02, 2001

They first are given anesthesia. Just the same as killing a pig…

"Several patients were very up-front and candid about it, that they bought an organ taken from an executed convict for about $10,000. Most of the patients are ecstatic to be off of dialysis, and none has seemed particularly perturbed regarding the source of the organs."

Village Voice. Dr. Thomas Diflo describes a growing practice: Americans fly to China where they help the Chinese government profit from its assembly line death row by buying the harvested organs of executed prisoners. "In China, human rights groups say, citizens have been executed for nonviolent offenses like taking bribes, credit card theft, small-scale tax evasion, and stealing truckloads of vegetables. Political dissidents have also been sentenced to death."'

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