Jennie McLaurin

Truth isn’t just a relative word for postmodernists. Those with some of the deepest convictions about truth are unwilling to admit that real truth can handle greater clarity and illumination. Sadly, academics at Reformed Seminary have taken a position that no matter how convincing the scientific evidence is for evolution, there is no room for [...]

It has been exactly one year since Washington State enacted a physician-assisted suicide bill.  Data on the “death with dignity” patients are recorded as part of the state’s public health information. A total of 63 prescriptions were written in response to the legalization of lethal dosing, and of these prescriptions, 36 have been used to [...]

A colleague was recently asked who most shaped his thinking in the development of his ideas. As I consider that question, I wonder how we might respond when we reflect on how we’ve formed our understanding on our use of biomedicine? I suspect most of us—in the ordinary sense—are only vaguely aware of what has [...]

If you need a kidney, turn to Craigslist. If you need to pay for graduate school, consider being an egg donor or a surrogate mom. Want a boy with blue eyes instead of a girl with brown eyes? You can easily select one if you choose the right fertility clinic. Octuplets? Well, that seems a [...]