By Selwyn Duke

It’s not King Herod decreeing that male children should be killed, but it certainly is eyebrow-raising: China’s ever-growing, totalitarian surveillance state is now requiring blood samples from boys in provinces across the nation.

This is according to Bitter Winter (BW), a magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China. BW reports that one explanation given to concerned parents of schoolboys was that the program was designed to “prevent children from being lost or abducted.” Of course, though, since girls can be abducted, too, this excuse only further raises suspicions.

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