(Clearwisdom.net) American Transplant Congress 2007 is being held in San Francisco from May 5 to 9. Many attendees expressed that they learned about the CCP's harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners from the organ transplant conference held in Boston. Many of them signed their names to call for the end of the organ harvesting in China.

Falun Gong practitioners exposing the CCP's brutality

Dr. Scott Biggins from UCSF introducing the result of his investigation

Doctors signing to support Falun Gong practitioners

Citizens signing to support Falun Gong practitioners

Dr. Scott Biggins from the University of California-San Francisco learned about the CCP's harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners at an organ transplant conference held in Boston 2006. He, then, decided to investigate the organ harvesting by himself.

Dr. Biggins expressed that he has read the investigation report by Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas and he said that it was excellent.

Dr. Biggins conducted an investigation about ethical issues in organ transplants and wrote a paper based on the investigation.

Dr. Biggins said that some countries and areas have strict moral constraints on the sources of organs, but some countries do not. More than 3,500 liver transplants are conducted in China every year, and more than 95% of the livers are harvested from prisoners, which violates many international medical treaties.

Dr. Biggins expressed that he and his collages at UCSF are conducting a survey, hoping to set up a communication channel in the transplant community and a high moral standard of the organ sources.

Dr. Biggins introduced that they are sending survey questionnaires to the professionals in the liver transplant community on internet.

Some people sent the survey back and expressed that the organ transplant in China is no different than murder.

Dr. Biggins expressed that according to the result of investigation, compared to the people who didn't see the Falun Gong practitioners' presentation at the organ transplant conference in Boston 2006, more than twice of those, who did, expressed that they would not encourage their patients to accept organ transplants in China.

The results of the investigation shows that almost nobody believes that China has the ethical standard for organ transplantation. 67% of those surveyed were against publishing papers written by doctors from countries where immoral organ harvesting exists. 56% of those surveyed were not willing to train the doctors from the countries where organ harvesting exists. 86% and 73% of those surveyed agreed that the US and Europe do have the moral standards for performing organ transplants respectively, but only 4% agree that China does.

Dr. Biggins concluded: 1) Professionals in the organ transplant community are concerned about the ethical issues of organ transplants in China. 2) Most people do not encourage immoral behavior in organ transplantation. 3) Most people are willing to take care of the patients who had accepted organ transplants in the countries where immoral organ transplants exist.

Many people listened to Dr. Biggins' speech.

Dr. Lewis from New Jersey said that one of his patients went to China for an organ transplant five years ago. Before he left, the doctors in China already found the organ which matched him, and he was told that the organ was from a prisoner. Dr. Lewis said that it bothers him that China harvests organs from prisoners.

Dr. Lewis expressed that it is illegal to sell and buy organs in the US, and all organs are from donors. It usually takes 5~6 years for the patients to obtain an organ in the US. But in China, the patients don't have wait. What is horrible is that the doctors in China harvest the organs from living people after the patients arrive.

Dr. Lewis said that through Falun Gong practitioners' demonstration in Boston and San Francisco, most attendees of the conference learned about the organ harvesting in China. He suggested that people should exert pressures on the CCP to stop it.

After listening to Dr. Biggins' speech, a doctor from Massachusetts expressed that she and her colleges are concerned about this issue and discussed how to stop it. She said that what they can do now is not to encourage their patients to go to China and refuse to publish the organ transplant papers by doctors in China.

She said that she saw Falun Gong practitioners' banners and was shocked. She said that she would tell her patients not to go to China for organ transplants.

Dr. Tsuneco, a Japanese doctor, said that he will not take care of the patients who had organ transplants in China, and he will tell his patients not to go to China for organ transplants.