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...received the results of a routine blood test and discovered that he has acute myelogenous leukemia, a condition that has led to chemotherapy instead of returning to classes. Now, Sam urgently needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. His plight has suddenly catapulted blood and organ donation into the Harvard community’s hearts and minds, a place where we hope this important cause will linger...
...Both outside and within the Harvard bubble, patients’ lives depend on blood, bone marrow, and organ donations. Unfortunately, the supply of these donations doesn’t keep up with their demand; while only a small number of individuals make the choice to donate, many will accept such donations when their own lives are at stake. It’s easy to be complacent until forced to take notice...
...learned of this fall prisoner organ harvest through hidden camera footage taken by BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes. In the video, Hayes strolls into one of the largest organ transplant centers in Northern China in order to procure a liver for his “ailing father.” Not particularly in the mood for subterfuge, Hayes asks the doctors if they received the organs from executed prisoners. The hospital officials cheerfully proclaim, “The prisoners on death row have done many bad things. Before they die they give their organs as a present to society...
This practice should be disturbing to Westerners for a few reasons. Most obviously, the Chinese government’s decision to profit off the remains of executed prisoners is one more nail in the coffin of civil liberties in the country. Even more importantly, unrestricted organ harvesting creates a juicy financial incentive to maximize the number of executions in China, which already happens to execute more people than the rest of the world combined. Yet perhaps the most frightening part about China’s crimes against its citizens is that, for the most part, we don?...
...suffering from a bad case of myopia. A 2005 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Poll found that, in countries such as Britain, Germany, Spain, France, and Russia, China is viewed far more favorably than the United States. One can only conclude that a giant 4th of July organ harvest might do the trick in winning these nations’ approval...