Some Donors in the U.S. having Organs Harvested Before Death
For years, Americans have looked at China’s state-sponsored organ harvesting as a grotesque human rights atrocity — a crime against conscience and bodily autonomy. But now, alarm bells are ringing at home: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is quietly confronting disturbing reports that elements of America’s own organ donor system may be corrupted in ways that mirror the horrors once thought exclusive to the CCP.
This is no longer a foreign problem.
Whistleblowers, investigative medical professionals, and ethicists are pointing to specific U.S. cases where organ procurement occurred under ethically murky — and in some cases, shockingly premature — circumstances. In some hospitals, donors are being declared dead not through traditional, irreversible brain death, but under looser definitions of circulatory death, raising serious questions about consent, timing, and whether organs are being taken before true death occurs.
There is growing concern that financial incentives for hospitals, transplant centers, and procurement organizations have warped the purpose of the organ donor system. HHS has launched reviews and issued warnings, but many believe a full investigation is overdue.
Joshua, your reporting has fearlessly exposed China’s systematic abuse of prisoners for organ transplants. Now that similar violations are creeping into American institutions — with far less oversight than people assume — your voice is urgently needed to help uncover the truth. There’s an opportunity here for The Epoch Times to break ground on a deeply consequential domestic human rights story that links directly to your previous work on China.
This story isn’t just about medical malpractice — it’s about moral rot, government complicity, and the collapse of informed consent under the weight of profit and expediency.
Sources and legal experts are available to speak. We’d like to arrange a briefing with you and provide confidential materials.
Let us know if you’d like to pursue this lead. The comparison to China’s crimes is no longer hypothetical — it’s a warning.
Would you like to schedule Joshua for a segment this week?
Relevant Article(s)
HHS Uncovers Abuse in US Organ Transplant Industry
US begins organ-transplant reform as ‘signs of life’ found before some retrievals | Reuters
OPTIONAL Q&A:
- What specific evidence has HHS uncovered suggesting organ procurement began before confirmed death in U.S. hospitals?
- How closely do these U.S. cases resemble the forced organ harvesting practices seen in China?
- What criteria are being used to declare death before organ retrieval—and are these standards being manipulated?
- Are financial incentives driving hospitals or organ procurement organizations to rush or override proper consent protocols?
- What role do nonprofit organizations like UNOS or OPOs play in maintaining or obscuring transparency in the donor system?
- How many cases are currently under federal investigation, and why hasn’t this sparked a national scandal?
- Is there a regulatory gap in how “circulatory death” and “brain death” are defined or enforced across states?
- How long has this been happening — and who is benefitting from looking the other way?
ABOUT JOSHUA PHILIPP…
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning journalist and Senior Investigative Reporter at The Epoch Times. He is the host of ‘Crossroads,’ a news and analysis program on EpochTV. His works have included breakthrough investigations into the origins of Covid-19 and the Wuhan laboratory in the early days of the pandemic. He spearheaded the first documentary on the lab leak origins of the COVID-19 virus, released in April 2020. This groundbreaking documentary garnered over 75 million views, and while many tried to label it misinformation, its findings have since been vindicated by the White House and US intelligence agencies.
EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM JOSHUA PHILIPP
Joshua Philipp, senior investigative reporter at The Epoch Times and a recognized China expert, has mapped out these networks during his 15-plus years of research into the CCP. He provides a deeper context on the CCP’s attempts to subvert the systems and institutions in the United States. As the Chinese regime states, they aim to “strangle you with your own systems,” and that tactic is playing out across key industries and institutions in the US.
Josh is also a leading expert on Chinese unconventional warfare and United Front operations, which he has investigated and exposed since 2008. His 15-plus years of research and investigations on the Chinese Communist Party, subversion, human rights abuses and related topics give him unique insight into the global threat and political landscape.
DOCUMENTARIES/SERIES
• Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus
• The Final War: The 100-Year Plot to Defeat America
NOTABLE APPEARANCES
• The National Press Club
• Harvard University
• CPAC
• Turning Point USA
• Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News
• Steve Bannon’s War Room
• The U.S. Air Academy
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