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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Epoman on June 19, 2006, 10:37:32 PM
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Ads on the home page that were websites offering transplants in foriegn countries. Those ads were placed there by google, I do not control what is placed there. I can however BLOCK certain sites and by doing so their ad will not show up. I blocked 3 different sites from showing up (all 3 were overseas transplant sites) If you see any other ads offering overseas transplants, please let me know A.S.A.P. and I will block that site so their ad will not show up anymore. Again I apologize and want to let you know this site does NOT endorse those sites what-so-ever and they have been blocked. Some more may show up, so keep an eye out.
- Epoman
Owner/Admin
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:) Thank you Epoman for being so vigilant. The care and concern you put into maintaining this site and keeping it free from crap is really appreciated!! :D
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I have the same problem on my blog, but don't know how to block those ads. I hate to think that people might believe that I endorse such ads. I have even received email from some of those clinics, and emailed them back, telling them what I think of their method of contacting potential recipients. Even if we had the funds, my daughter would never accept an organ them.
Here is an article about this.
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20060706%2forgan_report060706&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True
Report finds evidence of China's organ harvesting
06/07/2006 2:50:04 PM
China has harvested the organs of Falun Gong prisoners according to the evidence presented in a report by two Canadians released Thursday.
Former Liberal MP David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer David Matas volunteered to lead the two-month investigation, and on Thursday presented their 45-page long report on the illegal practice.
"The allegations are true...harvesting is indeed happening," Matas said during the press conference.
The report, which assessed 18 categories of evidence, found that organ harvesting of Falun Gong members began in 2000 and continues to this day in different parts of China.
"This is a form of evil we have yet to see on this planet," Matas said.
Members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that is outlawed in China, claim thousands of their imprisoned practitioners have been victims of organ harvesting.
"We can't give you an estimate as to the numbers, but in our report, we will indicate that about 40,000 organ transplants are not explained," Kilgour told Canada AM Thursday.
Kilgour and Matas conclude the majority of the organs came from Falun Gong prisoners, who didn't volunteer their organs.
The report, which includes testimony from relatives of the surgeons, supports these charges.
"The wife of one of the surgeons...said that what happens is he took the cornea and then other surgeons would take the heart, the liver and the kidneys and I think the pancreases as well," Kilgour said.
According to the woman, her husband removed corneas out of approximately 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners all of whom would die as a result.
Websites have even appeared soliciting foreigners who need transplants, promising organs in a week or two.
"That can't happen unless you have a bank of live people who are waiting to die so that some other human being can have their kidney," he said.
In addition to witness testimony, Kilgour and Matas also recorded conversations between some of the hospitals and prisons regarding requests for specific organs from Falun Gong prisoners.
The pair arranged for Mandarin-speaking individuals to phone hospitals asking for Falun Gong organs.
During the press conference, Kilgour read some of the phone transcripts:
In 1999, China outlawed the practice of Falun Gong. At that time, the government estimated there were approximately 60 million followers.
The report includes several recommendations, including the plea for Ottawa to stop training Chinese doctors in transplant technologies in Canada until there is proof that the practice has stopped.