China’s New Year’s Resolution: No More Harvesting Executed Prisoners’ Organs

January 2, 2015

(ABC News) – China appears set today to end its controversial, decades-long practice of harvesting organs from the bodies of prisoners executed by the state, according to state-run media. “Starting from January 1, China will end its reliance on the organs of executed prisoners for transplantation,” the Chinese vice minister of health said in early December in a rare admission of the long-secret practice. “Organ donations will only come from the public and voluntary organ donations will become the only organ donation source.”