Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has blown the lid off what he calls a “horrifying and unconscionable” practice—hospitals harvesting organs from patients who still showed signs of life.
Kennedy, who has repeatedly challenged the entrenched medical establishment, took to X to make a fiery declaration:
Hospitals began organ harvesting while patients still showed signs of life. That’s horrifying—and it ends now.
Under my leadership, @HHSGov is overhauling the organ transplant system. We’ve exposed gross negligence, launched sweeping reforms, and will decertify any organization that violates the sanctity of human life.
During an interview with Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt, RFK Jr. didn’t hold back, exposing a grotesque, dystopian reality hidden beneath the glossy image of the medical complex.
Rob Schmitt:
Organs harvested from patients that are still moving. I heard that from a Congressional hearing last week. What can you tell us?RFK Jr.:
Yeah, I mean, it’s a horror story. And part of it is because of the capture of the agency that was regulating. ORL had the board that was actually regulating organ harvesting overlapping with the contractor that was actually harvesting the organs. It was done state by state. Some of the states were just truly a nightmare. It was sickening to read these stories.They had one instance where a family was waiting at the hospital for the body of their deceased relative. The relative was brought to one of these private organ harvesting centers, awoke while they were harvesting her organs, and then was brought back to the hospital, where she eventually died. But the family brought litigation, and that’s the only reason that we learned of this story.
We’ve done a complete investigation of that company. We’ve taken the contract away from that company, and we’re reorganizing it so that we will be regulating it and running it directly at HHS. This will never happen again.
Hospitals began organ harvesting while patients still showed signs of life. That’s horrifying—and it ends now.
Under my leadership, @HHSGov is overhauling the organ transplant system. We’ve exposed gross negligence, launched sweeping reforms, and will decertify any organization… pic.twitter.com/bu7uIVNgmh
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 4, 2025
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