1 week Ago By Eva Fu
It was so close—the Arizona bill aimed to block state funding for Beijing’s state-sponsored forced organ harvesting made it through both chambers of the Arizona Legislature with health insurers on board—only to be killed on the governor’s desk. The bill’s lead sponsor, state Rep. Leo Biasiucci, said the decision so stunned him that he struggled to find the right words.
The killing-for-organ criminal industry in China, victimizing prisoners of conscience such as adherents of the persecuted spiritual group Falun Gong, attracts patients worldwide by offering an impossibly short waiting period—sometimes within days. Ms. Hobbs maintained that her decisions centered on a section blocking healthcare institutions and research facilities from using China-based gears for genetic sequencing, and insurers from funding such an act.
“While I understand the intentions of the bill, it includes overbroad provisions; it includes overbroad provisions for genetic sequencing equipment that create compliance challenges for hospitals, healthcare providers, and researchers,” she wrote in the veto letter. Mr. Biasiucci disagrees.
“We don’t want our DNA being sold to the government of China, knowing that they’re doing what they’re doing with forced organ harvesting,” he said. “To see it go all this way—all the amendments, everything that happened, and then all of a sudden it was vetoed. It’s very disappointing,” Diana Molovinsky of Phoenix Falun Dafa Association, who .
