Watch: Wesley J. Smith Participates in Heritage Foundation Panel Discussion on Chinese Organ Harvesting

On April 7, Wesley J. Smith participated in a Heritage Foundation-hosted discussion titled, “Organ Harvesting: Communist China’s Hideous Shop of Horrors.” He was joined by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards, Representative Chris Smith (R–NJ), Jan Jekielek (Senior Editor of The Epoch Times, host of “American Thought Leaders”), Ethan Gutmann, and Bob Moffit.

While the majority of the conversation centered on the human rights abuses occurring in China, Smith warned the audience not to be blind to similar atrocities happening here in the West:

[T]his is about what’s happening in China — let’s call that a 108-degree fever. But what’s happening in the West, along similar lines, is a 102-degree fever. So you have bioethicists in the most notable medical and bioethical journals arguing that where euthanasia is legal, euthanasia should be done by organ harvesting. And we’re beginning to turn people, let’s say who were suicidal and “qualified” to be killed with a lethal jab or receive a lethal prescription, into a killable caste, and once you create a killable caste, you begin to instrumentalize people.

Read More of Wesley J. Smith’s Work on This Topic:

• Will Assisted Suicide Coupled with Organ Harvesting Come to the U.S.? | Humanize
• Bioethicist: Let Surgeons Kill Patients During Organ Harvesting | Humanize
• Medical Journal Pushes Conjoining Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting | Humanize