1.1 	A resolution
1.2 	calling for an end to the cold genocide and forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong 
1.3 	practitioners in China.
1.4 	WHEREAS, ethical guidelines for transplantation are set forth by the Minnesota Medical 
1.5 	Association, the American Medical Association, the World Medical Association, and the World 
1.6 	Health Organization; the medical profession has the responsibility to protect the rights and interests 
1.7 	of patients who need and seek transplant surgery, as well as to protect the rights and interests of 
1.8 	those whose organs may have been procured in an unethical manner; and
1.9 	WHEREAS, China is the country that performs the largest number of transplants in the world 
1.10 	and thus must be held accountable to particular standards to act ethically and transparently regarding 
1.11 	organ transplants and organ procurement; and
1.12 	WHEREAS, systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting not only from executed prisoners 
1.13 	but particularly from prisoners of conscience in China has occurred with the knowledge of the 
1.14 	Chinese government; and there are credible investigative reports about forced organ harvesting 
1.15 	from Falun Gong practitioners in China that have led to parliamentarian actions; and
1.16 	WHEREAS, the United States Congress passed House Resolution 343 in June, 2016, calling 
1.17 	for an end to forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience in China, and the 
1.18 	European Parliament also passed Written Declaration 48 in the summer of 2016 calling for 
1.19 	investigations and an end to forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience in 
1.20 	China; and
1.21 	WHEREAS, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), a medical nongovernmental 
1.22 	organization that was nominated for a Nobel Peace Price in 2016 and 2017, collected over 3,000,000 
1.23 	signatures for a petition to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, thereby establishing 
1.24 	widespread public interest in this matter, is calling for an end to forced organ harvesting in China; 
1.25 	and
2.1 	WHEREAS, a review of the Government of the People's Republic of China by the United 
2.2 	Nations Human Rights Council's Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review in November 
2.3 	2018 recommended that China "[e]nd prosecution and persecution on the basis of religion or belief, 
2.4 	including for Muslims, Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, and Falun Gong"; and
2.5 	WHEREAS, on September 24, 2019, Mr. Hamid Sabi, Counsel to the China Tribunal, 
2.6 	addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council with the Tribunal's conclusion that forced 
2.7 	organ harvesting from hundreds of thousands of prisoners of conscience has been committed on a 
2.8 	significant scale for years throughout China, continuing to this day; and
2.9 	WHEREAS, recent research has established that China's public organ donation program, 
2.10 	which is said to be the foundation of its transplant reform, is not plausible; and
2.11 	WHEREAS, Chinese transplant numbers have increased dramatically and transplant tourism 
2.12 	has become a lucrative source of income in China, leading to a rapid expansion of the transplant 
2.13 	infrastructure in China in absence of a credible organ donation system, and China has declared the 
2.14 	Hainen Islands to be a special economic zone for medical tourism; and
2.15 	WHEREAS, the forced organ harvesting in China from prisoners of conscience, primarily 
2.16 	from Falun Gong practitioners, is part of a cold genocide against Falun Gong; NOW, THEREFORE
2.17 	BE IT RESOLVED that the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of Representatives 
2.18 	recognize the importance of ethical standards in the medical profession; AND, THEREFORE
2.19 	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of 
2.20 	Representatives request from the Minnesota Medical Association a report on China's transplant 
2.21 	and organ procurement practices as well as the status of prisoners of conscience as sources of 
2.22 	transplantable organs; AND, THEREFORE
2.23 	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of 
2.24 	Representatives ask the Minnesota Medical Association to request from the American Medical 
2.25 	Association a report on China's transplant and organ procurement practices as well as the status of 
2.26 	prisoners of conscience as sources of transplantable organs; AND, THEREFORE
2.27 	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that it urges the 
2.28 	President and the Congress of the United States to call upon China to end the cold genocide and 
2.29 	forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners.
2.30 	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota is directed 
2.31 	to prepare copies of this memorial and transmit them to the Minnesota Falun Dafa Organization, 
2.32 	the President of the United States, the President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the 
2.33 	Speaker and the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, the chair of the Senate 
2.34 	Committee on Foreign Relations, the chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 
2.35 	Minnesota's Senators and Representatives in Congress.