Tennessee lawmakers unanimously approved a bill to prevent the state from facilitating forced organ harvesting abuses by China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The Tennessee Genomic Security and End Organ Harvesting Act, sponsored by eight legislators in the state House and three in the Senate, passed in both chambers with votes of 90-0 and 27-0 respectively. It is now headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s (R) desk.
The bill addresses two separate issues that have caused concern around the world: the Chinese state’s access to mass collections of genetic data, and the human rights atrocity of state-sponsored harvesting of vital organs from prisoners of conscience....
