1) “China officials plan to phase out organ harvesting of death-row inmates, a move to overhaul a transplant system that has for years relied on prisoners and organ traffickers to serve those in need of transplants.”

• This makes it seem that people in need of organ transplants have only been able to get them from prisoners and organ traffickers.
• It completely forgets to mention that other people are still able to donate organs.

2)”Huang Jiefu, China’s vice minister of health, said on Thursday that Chinese officials plan to abolish the practice within the next five years and to create a national organ-donation system.”

• This quote makes it seem that they do not have a sufficient organ donation system in place.

3)”The pledge to abolish organ donations from condemned prisoners represents the resolve of the government,”

• The Chinese government apparently is in a bad state.
• They are trying to make there government better by getting rid of organ donations from condemned prisoners.

4)”Officials in the world’s most populous country have conceded that China has depended for years on executed prisoners as its main source of organ supply for ailing citizens.”

• Chinese officials make it seem that the organ donation system will collapse without prisoners.
• They make prisoners seem like things with organs instead of people.

5)”Human-rights groups say the harvesting is often forced and influences the pace of China’s executions.”

• Harvesting makes it seem as though the Chinese government is farming prisoners for organs.
• The words forced and influence make you question whether the prisoners are getting a fair trial or are just being put on death row so other people can be saved.

6)”Mr. Huang has been quoted in state media reports as saying that the rights of death-row prisoners have been fully respected and that the state asks for written consent prior to donation.”

• Mr. Huang says the prisoners rights are being respected but other quotes have stated that the officials are harvesting the organs which seems as though the inmate have no choice.

7)”Due in part to traditional beliefs and distrust of the medical system, voluntary donations are rare in China, where the need for organs far exceeds the supply.”

• Why do people distrust the medical system.
• There are over a billion people in China and one must question how there are more inmates on death row than people willing to donate organs.

8)”An estimated 65% of China’s organ donations come from prisoners, according to 2009 data, the most recent available, from human-rights advocacy organization Amnesty International.”

• It is incredible that China kills that many prisoners and uses their organs.
• It makes the reader think that they are putting prisoners on death row just for their organs.
• Mr. Huang previously stated that organ donations are the prisoners choice which seems as though that could be false based on this statistic.

9)”They say that the government’s efforts to educate the public on organ donation have been inadequate.”

• Is it the governments education system that is inadequate or is the government corrupt and the citizens don’t trust it?

10)”The dependence on prisoners for their organs influences the timing of executions in China and in many cases bars inmates from the ability to appeal their death sentences, she said.”

• It says it influences the timing of executions but it also makes the reader believe that the dependence on organ donations influences whether a prisoner live or die.
• China doesn’t let many inmates appeal cases which shows that the government just wants their organs and doesn’t care about their life.

11)”While such appeals are rare in China, prisoners sometimes get a reprieve on death sentences, enabling them to escape execution.”

• Are they getting a reprieve on death because the crime they committed doesn’t fit the punishment or are their organs just not needed.

12)”China doesn’t publicly report execution figures, but San Francisco-based human-rights group Dui Hua Foundation estimates that 4,000 prisoners were executed in 2011.”

• The reason China doesn’t report execution figures is because people would see that many times, the government is unjust in their reasoning for killing people.