Name: Film Screening Inspires Pennsylvanians to Help End Forced Organ Harvesting
Uploaded: 2025-02-04T12:12:46.000Z
Description: DOYLESTOWN, Pa.—“I feel crushed. It couldn’t be any more sad and horrifying, this thing that I’ve not known,” said pilot Chris Davies after watching the 76-min film “State Organs” at Doylestown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29.

NTD Newsroom comprises teams of reporters, editors, and producers assigned to cover breaking news and other stories.


NTD Newsroom

NTD Plus

News

Breaking news and in-depth analysis from the United States and beyond. We bring you the latest updates, exclusive insights, and sharp discussions on the most pressing issues. NTD Newsroom airs Monday–Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET.

Alaska Primaries Sees 2 Dan Sullivans on Senate Ballot

Don Ma is an anchor and senior business correspondent based at the network's global headquarters in New York City. Don is the anchor and producer of NTD's "Business Matters," which airs weekdays at 4:30 pm ET.

Don Ma

Economist Warns of the Socialist Trap for Americans: ‘They Don’t Want Progress, What They Want Is Control’

Purchase of Building Near White House by CCP Intelligence Official ‘A Failure of the System’: Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent

What’s at Stake for Brazil in October’s Election?

Andrew Thomas is a reporter for NTD News primarily covering business, the economy, and technology. 

Andrew Thomas

House Ethics Committee Investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Tom Gantert is a reporter for The Epoch Times.

Tom Gantert

US News

DOJ Opens Path to Restore Federal Gun Rights for 30 Million Americans

China Masks Shipping Origin on ‘Industrial Scale’ to Bring Counterfeits, Fentanyl, Tariffed Goods Into US: Analyst

Drug Trafficker Faces New Charges After Sentence Commuted by Biden

Democratic Socialist Candidates ‘Within Striking Distance’ of Running for Governor: Public Policy Adviser

‘Everything is Available for a Price’: National Security Analyst on Report on Chinese Influence at Harvard

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 18)

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 17)

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 14)

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 13)

We Are ‘On the Precipice’ of Losing Our Freedom and Rights: National Security Expert

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 12)

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 11)

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 10)

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 7)

NTD Newsroom Full Broadcast (Aug. 6)

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages.

Reuters

Cyber Defense Agency Warns Hackers Are Increasingly Targeting Water Systems

US Announces Visa Restrictions Targeting Cybercriminals

Rudy Blalock is a Southern California-based daily news reporter for NTD. Originally from Michigan, he moved to California in 2017 and the sunshine and ocean have kept him here since. In his free time, he may be found underwater scuba diving, on top of a mountain hiking or snowboarding, or at home meditating—which helps fuel his active lifestyle.

Rudy Blalock

RFK Jr. Declares Public Health Emergency for Wildfire-Ravaged Washington State

Tiffany Meier is an anchor, China news investigative reporter, and producer for NTD News based at the network's global headquarters in New York City. Tiffany anchors NTD's flagship shows "NTD Evening News" and "China in Focus" and co-moderates NTD's special election coverage "The Nation Decides." She produced the award-winning NTD Original documentary "Hollywood Takeover: China's Control in the Film Industry."


Tiffany Meier

Shows

Fast, compelling, first-hand news from China. China in Focus airs Monday–Friday at 9:30 p.m. ET.

China in Focus

Japan to Counter China With 'Overall National Strength'; US: 'No Nation Will Dominate Indo-Pacific'

Rachel Acenas is an experienced journalist and TV news reporter and anchor covering breaking stories and contributing original news content for NTD's digital team.

Rachel Acenas

Immigration &amp; Border Security

Trump Admin Launches Program Requiring Some Immigrants to Post Bond up to $250,000

News you can trust from the U.S. and around the world. Critical information and insight. We cover the stories that others don’t. NTD News Today airs Monday–Friday at 11 a.m. ET.

NTD News Today

Florida Ticket Wins $800 Million Mega Millions Jackpot

Troy Myers is a regional reporter based in St. Augustine, Florida. His background includes breaking, criminal justice, and investigative writing for local news, producing on a national morning newscast in Washington, D.C., and working with an award-winning, weekly investigative news program. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his dog at the beach.

Troy Myers

Jason Perry is an Army veteran and NTD's national security correspondent. Jason primarily covers border security, national defense, foreign wars, and veterans' issues.

Jason Perry

Courts

Appeals Court Upholds Block on Trump Order to Tighten Mail-In Voting, Citizenship Verification

Bringing you the latest videos, livestreams, and premieres.


NTD Videos

Label

Live

NTD+ Live

Trump Makes an Announcement on Freedom Hauler in the White House

Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.

Jackson Richman

Melina Wisecup is NTD's congressional correspondent based in Washington, covering Capitol Hill and campaign politics.

Melina Wisecup

Politics

Congress

House Passes Defense Policy Bill That Attaches SAVE America Act

Arleen Richards is NTD's legal correspondent based at the network's global headquarters in New York City, where she covers all major legal stories. Arleen holds a Doctor of Law (J.D.).


Arleen Richards

Trump Admin Revokes More Than 175,000 US Visas

Lily Sun is an Epoch Times reporter who covers the tri-state of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.


Lily Sun

Daniel Monaghan is a reporter for NTD News covering culture, social issues, and education. He holds a BA in Political Science and Government.

Daniel Monaghan

DOYLESTOWN, Pa.—“I feel crushed. It couldn’t be any more sad and horrifying, this thing that I’ve not known,” said pilot Chris Davies after watching the 76-min film “State Organs” at Doylestown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29.

The film took dozens of Doylestown residents on a shocking and emotional journey on the first day of the Chinese New Year. “State Organs” exposes the practice of forced organ harvesting in China, featuring disturbing testimony involving torture and other human rights violations.

Forced organ harvesting is the state-sanctioned extracting of organs by force, mostly from prisoners of conscience, for transplantation purposes.

Davies said he wasn’t surprised by the details of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, since he was already aware of the nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

“It’s no surprise to me, because the evilness of communism, when they saw the growth of [Falun Gong], they decided to exterminate it, and then they not only decided to exterminate these innocent people, they’re harvesting their organs for profits,” Davies said. “It’s the devil’s work. These people are devil workers.”

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. It was introduced to the public in China in 1992 and grew rapidly, with official estimates saying there were 70-100 million practitioners by the late 1990s. Its practitioners have been brutally persecuted in China since 1999.

“It’s the evil demons that are running the country and keeping everybody under their boot and in terrorizing and harvesting their organs and locking up people’s children for no reason whatsoever,” Davies said of the Chinese communist regime.

He believes the world must act to end the atrocity.

“Something has to be done. I think that not just the United States, but we’re one of their larger trading partners, but the whole world. It’ll be painful, mostly for the Chinese people, if they were to embargo any products made in China, because all over the globe, manufacturing is made in China, but it might quickly bring enough pressure on the Communist Party that some change can happen. But the change, like any revolution, is going to be very costly, but it needs to happen,” Davies said.

He said that it’s “obscene” to continue doing business with companies and individuals with ties to the CCP.

According to <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/forced-organ-harvesting-in-china-has-taken-place-on-significant-scale-independent-tribunal-finds-2965978">researchers</a>, China’s organ transplant hospitals claim that a matching organ can be found within weeks or even days. In other countries, it takes years. This rapid organ availability suggests that China’s hospitals have a vast supply of living people whose organs are harvested on demand.

In 2019, an independent tribunal in London unanimously concluded that prisoners of conscience have been killed in China for their organs “on a significant scale,” with Falun Gong practitioners as the main source.

Pilot Chris Davies attends the screening of the film “State Organs” at Doylestown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29, 2025. (May Lin/The Epoch Times)

Davies’s wife, lawyer Mariann Davies, said she was horrified after learning the extent of the persecution.

“Horrified. Had no idea. I knew that Falun Gong was being persecuted, but I had no idea the extent and the depth. It’s very frightening,” she said. “This film opened my eyes to the really gruesome reality and horrific acts. It’s a crime against humanity, and it needs to be stopped immediately.”

“It’s frightening this is being allowed in the world,” she said. “Hopefully more Americans and more Western societies understand what’s going on, and that will change maybe our attitude towards dealing with the CCP, or any CCP entities that are in our own countries.”

Lawyer Mariann Davies attends the screening of the film “State Organs” at Doylestown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29, 2025. (May Lin/The Epoch Times)


<h2>Audience Inspired to Take Action</h2>
After watching the documentary and hearing from the host and panelists in a discussion after the film, many attendees said they want to do something about forced organ harvesting in China.

Four panelists at the film screening of “State Organs” at Doylestown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29, 2025. From the left: board member of the Greater Philadelphia Falun Dafa Association Alex Luchansky, Falun Gong survivor of Falun Gong persecution William Huang, Jessica Russo, Psy.D., mental health adviser for Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), Alex Chen, M.D., international liaison officer for the Taiwan Association for International Care of Organ Transplants (TAICOT). (Lily Sun/The Epoch Times)

Ilka Werner, who makes handcrafted therapeutic heating and cooling packs, shared her overwhelming deep concern about the issue.

“I have heard of the forced organ harvesting before, especially the cornea. I just didn’t realize how far it went that prisoners give their lives for others to come in and purchase their organs,” she said.

“I think as Americans, we’ve got to speak out against this [forced organ harvesting] wherever we can. We need to stop, and we need to put an end to this. And we can,” Werner said.

Ilka Werner, an American manufacturer, attends the screening of the film “State Organs” at Doylestown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29, 2025. (May Lin/The Epoch Times)

She suggested introducing state-level legislation to require Chinese medical students to stay in the U.S. for 10 years after their education, to prevent them from returning to China and participating in forced organ harvesting.

Marie Bushnell, a retired florist, expressed shock after hearing that U.S. pharmaceutical companies are sending supplies to Chinese military hospitals involved in organ transplants.

“I was totally amazed and upset about this whole situation in China, and our pharmaceutical companies sending the supplies to these hospitals, these military hospitals in China that are doing the transplants,” she said.

Marie Bushnell, a retired florist, attends the screening of the film “State Organs” at Doylestown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29, 2025. (May Lin/The Epoch Times)

Bushnell plans to inform local legislators about the persecution and speak to the mayor of Doylestown about this issue.

Bushnell appreciated the filmmaker and event organizers for letting people know what’s going on, “because it’s going to impact the United States.”

John Ruby, a retired business owner, said he has started “thinking about the promotion side of how to get the message out.”

John and Marlene Ruby attend the screening of the film “State Organs” at Doylestown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania on Jan. 29, 2025. (May Lin/The Epoch Times)

His wife, Marlene Ruby, teared up after watching the film.

“My heart hurts. It’s so impactful, and there was remarkable information provided for us, that I was not aware [of],” she said. “To have the word go out is so important, because we don’t understand a lot of what’s going on in the world, and particularly, in China. Because there isn’t open information coming out from there, in my opinion. So this is really pretty remarkable.”

<em>May Lin </em><em>contributed to this report.</em>

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/film-screening-inspires-pennsylvanians-to-help-end-forced-organ-harvesting-5801652">The Epoch Times</a></em>

Latest

China News

Persecution in China

Videos

04_Top Stories

Latest Clips

Organ Harvesting in China

Pennsylvania

State News

Latest and breaking news, documentaries, movies, and lifestyle content on NTD+.
 
Empower your knowledge and elevate your spirit with NTD+, your go-to destination for truthful news, insightful documentaries, and captivating lifestyle content that enriches your life.

Film Screening Inspires Pennsylvanians to Help End Forced Organ Harvesting

Cary Dunst is the news anchor for NTD Evening News. He is also the co-host of NTD Good Morning.


Cary Dunst

News with integrity, from the United States and around the world. Focused reports and analyses that shed light on major issues the world deserves to know. NTD Evening News airs daily at 6 p.m. ET.

NTD Evening News

NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 18)

NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Aug. 18)

Stefania Cox is an NTD News anchor and national correspondent based at the network's global headquarters in New York City. Stefania anchors "NTD Newsroom," and co-anchors "NTD News Today" weekdays at 10:00 am ET.

Stefania Cox

We present news that is truthful and based on facts, outside of the political fog. Instead of focusing on the negative things happening around us, our mission is to give our viewers a good morning with empathetic and uplifting stories. Our aim is to provide an antidote to negativity by shining a light on the best side of people. We speak to inspiring people who positively impact communities, pursue topics that represent our common human values, and will never miss an opportunity to bring you heartwarming stories.

NTD Good Morning

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (Aug. 18)

NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 17)

NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Aug. 17)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (Aug. 17)

NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 14)

NTD News Today Full Broadcast (August 14)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (Aug 14)

NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (August 13)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (Aug 13)

NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (August 12)

Paul Greaney is an NTD news anchor and producer. Since joining the company in 2018, he has anchored the station’s flagship Evening News broadcast, launched the NTD Business show, and produced documentary reports on pointed issues. 

The highlight of Paul’s time in the field was his coverage of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 2019.