Hearing held in the U.S. Congress addressing the forced organ harvesting practices in China

On September 12, 2012, a joint-subcommittee hearing has been held in the U.S. Congress addressing the forced organ harvesting practices in China. The hearing was co-chaired by Hon. Dana Rohrabacher and Hon. Chris Smith.
Among the panelists were Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, Dr. Damon Noto and Ethan Gutmann. The hearing explored different aspects of the organ harvesting practices in China and what American citizens can contribute to end the practice. Dr. Gabriel Danovitch elaborated on the complications of transplantation for patients after unethical organ harvesting practices and summarized the outcome of such practices for patients in a few words: “Unethical medicine is bad medicine.”