Doing the Right thing...Stopping a bad Chinese import.
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Turns out the wildly popular, if somewhat unusual Bodies…The Exhibition, you know the one that takes a real human body and plastinates it into a striking pose, splayed for all to see the inner wonder that is the human body has raised the ire of Rep. Todd Akin R-MO.
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He has “introduced the bill that would prohibit the importation of any "plastinated" human body part into this country”. I have attended the competing BodyWorlds exhibit and while strange, found it interesting and certainly saw aspects to the human body I have never seen before.
The crux of Rep. Arkin’s problem, and 21 other co-sponsors lies with the fact that Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions, promoter of Bodies…The Exhibition uses "unclaimed" Chinese bodies for display which with China’s human rights abuses bears witness that perhaps this is one import we ought to restrict.
"This is a human rights issue about affording human dignities to people around the world," said Rep. Akin, adding that he is concerned that the Chinese people in the exhibit did not give permission for their bodies to be on display. "We cannot verify the source of each body coming from China, so we decided the best approach was to say that in our country, you cannot import plastinated bodies," he said.
U.S. Customs has said that since the plastination process changes the nature of the human remains, plastinated body parts can be imported as plastic objects, not as human bodies.
Akin is outraged. "That is the same rhetoric that oppressive governments around the world have used to dehumanize people. This is a human body. Just because you infuse plastic into it does not change that," he said.
I applaud Rep. Arkin, he is a strong conservative and has consistently proven to propose legislation that forwards our ideals.
How long will it take for people to realize that ALL Chinese trade needs to be banned?!
Those dead Chinese didn't have to give permission, they are the property of the state, and the state can dispose of them as it sees fit.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
This "exhibition" is currently on display here in Cincinnati at the Museum Center at Union Terminal. I ended my membership to the museum over this in general. My specific reason was all the billboards and buses showing two of the mutilated bodies. I could not even ignore the exhibition. They made sure I saw it.
Glad to see this is being done!
And didn't the Nazis create a similar display with the remains of Jewish inmates that exists to this day? The more things change....