Abortion, Prenatal Genetic Testing, and Rob Reiner's Christian Nationalism Documentary
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet and Maria Baer discuss prenatal genetic testing and Trisomy 18 after a Texas woman's request for an abortion was denied by the Texas Supreme Court. Also, Rob Reiner is releasing a negative documentary on Christian Nationalism, and SCOTUS will hear a challenge on access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
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Segment 1: Prenatal Genetic Testing and the Texas Abortion Case
"TX Supreme Court Rules Woman Can't Get In-State Abortion"
"5 Things to know about the latest abortion case in Texas"
Segment 2: New Documentary on "Christian Nationalism"
"Rob Reiner Takes on Christian Nationalism Threat in "God and Country" Trailer"
"Rob Reiner is deluded about 'Christian Nationalism'"
Segment 3: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Abortion Drug Access
"Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Case on abortion drug access"
"Appeals Court Rules FDA Must Restore Safeguards for Chemical Abortion Drugs"
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian perspective. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we're going to talk about the case out of Texas in which a woman is seeking an abortion for her child with a chromosomal abnormality. |
| 0:14.1 | We're also going to talk about a new documentary from Rob Reiner about Christian nationalism. |
| 0:19.2 | Are we looking forward to it? |
| 0:20.2 | Are we not so excited about it? |
| 0:21.8 | We have a lot to get to today. We're so glad you're with us. |
| 0:24.4 | Stick around. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Coulson Center for Christian |
| 0:29.7 | worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street Street president of the Colson Center. |
| 0:34.0 | John last night I went to my daughter's elementary school Christmas |
| 0:38.1 | choir program and I feel comfortable saying I would pay double the amount that it would cost to go see a world-class symphony |
| 0:47.2 | just to go see that program again. It was the cutest. Now one of your daughters is a singer, right? So you probably went to those when they were growing up or do you still? |
| 0:56.3 | All of my daughters actually sang. Okay. |
| 0:58.9 | Burturch in particular, yeah, it's a cool experience. There are other things like dance recitals that aren't necessarily things you want to go back to. |
| 1:07.6 | Aren't as fun. Yeah, I get that. There were three little guys dressed up as the three wise men and they had their gifts and everybody had different scriptures to read and my daughter had a little solo in a little town of Bethlehem which I've now heard 5,000 times and would love to hear it |
| 1:25.5 | 5,000 more because it's so cute but I'm so thankful for her school they go to a |
| 1:29.6 | Christian school here in Columbus and man it was awesome it was really really cute. |
| 1:34.8 | All right let's get to the show today I want to start with the situation going on in |
| 1:39.3 | Texas right now so this is heavy but there's a lot of cultural implications here and |
| 1:45.6 | theological and legal. I'm talking about a woman who she's 31, she wanted to get |
| 1:52.2 | an abortion because, so this is out of Texas, she found out through |
| 1:56.6 | genetic testing prenatally that her unborn child has trissome 18, which is a chromosomal |
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