Forced Organ Donation

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Last November 14, 2019, A scholastic study casts doubts on Beijing, China’s assertion to have resolved the force-harvesting of internal organs from prison inmates. It is said that the Middle Kingdom, the literal meaning of China in Chinese, has been involved in the “ingrained fabrication” of free-willed organ aid. In research circulated in the peer-reviewed periodical BMC Medical Ethics, three professors reviewed China’s conclusive interstate and local transplant statistics and found out that it was probably a counterfeit based on an “Arithmetical Replica.” To prove that China had ceased the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners and currently taking only from volunteers, it has started extracting the voluntary benefaction data 10 years ago. However, according to Matthew Robertson, one of the authors told AFP that they surveyed official data from 2010 to 2016 and discovered that there were many signs of fabrication. 

Mr. Robertson said stated that it was it probable but "exceptionally farfetched" that the quadratic formula would be coincidentally accurate. The investigation also showed inconsistency in stats provided by the Red-Cross, including the time when the number of transplanted organs per benefactor was around 20 which is a medical impossibility. The dissertation’s conclusion is already arousing demands for medical cooperation with China to be suspended. A clinical ethics professor, Wendy Rogers told the AFP that it was too early to believe in everything that China says without any close examination. She added that there should be a suspension on any commitment with China regarding transplantation which includes scientific conferences, publications of papers, and others. 

 

VOCABULARY:  Look for the meaning of the words below then practice using them in making your sentences. 

1. scholastic 

2. assertion 

3. ingrained 

4.  interstate 

5. extracting 

6. farfetched 

7.  inconsistency 

8. dissertation 

9. transplantation  

10. conferences 

DISCUSSION: Express more of your ideas about the topic. 

What did you imagine when you read the headline: ‘Forced Organ Donation’? 

What do you think of what you have read in the article? 

What do you think about organ transplants? 

Is there an organ donation program in your country? What do you think about it? 

What do you think about China forcing prisoners to donate their organs? 

If you are a benefactor of an organ from a prisoner who was forced to donate, are you going to accept it? Why? 

What should WHO do to stop force organ donation? 

What punishment should be given to a country to who practice this kind of donation system? 

Are you willing to donate your organ? Why/Why not? 

SOURCE: 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-accused-of--falsifying--organ-donation-data-12094530