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Michelle Wu: if this practice were going on in Canada, we would have stopped it long ago. If this practice were going on with people…

On the recordJuly 18, 2001
if this practice were going on in Canada, we would have stopped it long ago. If this practice were going on with people that we thought were very much like us, I think we would have stopped it cold long, long ago. I look very much like the folks whose organs are being harvested. If you cut me, will I not bleed? If you kill my children, will my heart not cry out in sorrow? And if you deny me justice, will my soul not cry out for justice? In this instance, in this instance, we live to fight another day; and I look forward to working with the chairman of this subcommittee to make this law this year. I thank my colleagues for the indulgence of the House.
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Michelle Wu
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Addressing the issue of organ harvesting and advocating for justice.

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