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It's Time to Shudder Wesley J. Smith April 5, 2016 2:04 AM | Permalink For years, I have documented the growing calls within bioethics and organ transplant medicine to kill the "dead donor" rule to allow live organ harvesting. Over at First Things, I note that euthanasia and organ harvesting have been conjoined in Belgium and Netherlands (and probably soon, Canada). And now, some doctors for those countries want to skip the lethal injection and kill the patient by removing organs. From the piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics: The dead donor rule states that donation should not cause...

BEIJING - China painted an optimistic picture of its resurgent military contacts with the United States on Thursday, saying the sides were building good momentum with talks between high-level defense officials in Washington this week. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said the contacts demonstrated both sides' commitment to set aside differences and focus on security issues. "China has always been very positive toward relations between the two militaries," Liu said at a regular briefing. "We are going to work with the U.S. side to put aside obstacles." People's Liberation Army Gen. Xiong Guangkai is meeting in Washington this week with...