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Chris Smith: You can't take prisoners who are on death row, destroy them, murder them, and then take their organs. I mean, that…

On the recordDecember 12, 2006
You can't take prisoners who are on death row, destroy them, murder them, and then take their organs. I mean, that smacks of Nazism, when people were reduced to mere commodities that were wanted only for the organs they could provide.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Chris Smith condemns the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners in China.

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