Should the US government sanction China for forced organ harvesting?

Foreign Affairs/Relations
Falun Gong Protection Act (H.R. 4132)
This bill has Passed the House of Representatives
Bill Summary

The Falun Gong Protection Act imposes sanctions regarding forced organ harvesting within the People’s Republic of China. These sanctions include ineligibility for visas or admission and the revocation of visas. Certain exceptions apply to matters of national security and humanitarian assistance. Sponsor: Representative Scott Perry (Republican, Pennsylvania, District 10)
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Opponents say

•    "The Administration has existing authority to sanction individuals responsible for violating human rights. If enactment of the bill leads the Administration to broaden those sanctions, more people would be denied visas by the Department of State, resulting in an insignificant decrease in revenues from fees. Although most visa fees are retained by the Department of State and spent, some collections are deposited into the Treasury as revenues. Denying foreign nationals entry into the United States also would reduce direct spending on federal benefits (emergency Medicaid or federal subsidies for health insurance, for example) for which those people might otherwise be eligible." Source: Congressional Budget Office

Proponents say

•    "[For] the United States, as the beacon of freedom around the world, to be silent on what's happening over decades to the Falun Gong, especially things like the torturing, the incarceration, the forced organ harvesting, to not hear anything from the greatest free country on the planet, that silence is deafening. And so finally, we are in the arena of voices that say this cannot continue, you can't continue to do business with the Communist Chinese Party and have people buying Chinese products and so on and so forth, not knowing, not realizing that there's concentration camps in China where they forcibly harvest, they take they cut out the organs of the people that they're incarcerating. It's unconscionable and unbelievable. " Source: Representative Scott Perry (Republican, Pennsylvania, District 10)


•    "This crucial bill will save lives, provide hope to Falun Gong practitioners still suffering in China, curtail forced organ harvesting there, and help American medical centers and patients avoid complicity in this heinous crime. We urge the Senate to introduce and pass a companion bill as soon as possible, and for President Biden to sign the bill into law." Source: Levi Browde, Falun Dafa Information Center Executive Director

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