Breakpoint This Week: Supreme Court Considers Abortion, Roe v. Wade, and Precedent in Dobbs v. Jackson | The Shooting in Oxford, Michigan
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
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Summary
John and Maria revisit the oral arguments for the Dobbs v. Jackson from the Supreme Court earlier this week. John shares insight from Ryan Anderson, who recently explained the impact of this case on the BreakPoint Podcast.
Maria then reports on the school shooting in Oxford, Michigan. She briefly tells a story being reported of a father whose son was killed in the shooting. The father reportedly told a friend when the two couldn't locate his son that, Tate, the son, is the kind of person who would run towards the shooter. John and Maria discuss manhood and the importance of fathering in this cultural moment.
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Segment 1:
The Changing Landscape of Being Pro-Choice
Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that could upend Roe v. Wade. At the very least, Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization is the most significant challenge to legalized abortion to date. In question in a Mississippi law known as the Gestational Age Act. If the court decides the law should stand, the power to determine and limit abortion rights would effectively be returned to the states.
The long battle over abortion in America has had many chapters. For years, most advocates of legalized abortion argued they were not really pro-abortion. Abortion, they claimed, was not a good thing, but women should have the right to decide whether or not to carry a baby to term. The painful decision to have an abortion, continued the rhetoric, is always tragic, but a woman must retain autonomy over her own body and health.
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Oral Arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Point to a Post-Roe Future
Today, on a very special edition of the BreakPoint podcast, I talk with Dr. Ryan Anderson, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) located in Washington, D.C. about the case, the oral arguments, and what the future could hold.
Segment 2:
Michigan Suspect's Parents Met With School Hours Before Shooting
Prosecutors said the 15-year-old boy accused of killing four classmates at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit on Tuesday had planned the attack "well before the incident."
The suspect, a 15-year-old boy who was charged with murder in the deaths of four students, had no previous juvenile record. But school officials had concerns about his behavior in the classroom.
Anthony Bradley on Michigan Shooting
Suburban 15-year-old boys have been shooting up their high schools since 1999. There is a clear profile that explains why this 20+year pattern repeats. Girls don't do this. Yet, when we say "There's a boy crisis" no one believes us. Why don't we want to focus on helping boys?
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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 worldview. |
| 0:06.7 | Today we're going to talk about the oral arguments heard this week at the Supreme Court over a landmark abortion case. |
| 0:12.7 | We're also going to talk about another school shooting this time in Michigan and what that means culturally for us. |
| 0:18.9 | We have a lot to get to today, but we're glad you're with us. |
| 0:21.3 | Thanks for sticking around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian |
| 0:26.4 | World View. I'm Maria Bear alongside our president, John Stone Street. John, we have so much to talk about |
| 0:32.1 | this week. We're obviously going to get to the oral arguments in the Mississippi abortion case. But first, I have to eat crow |
| 0:39.5 | a little bit. I thought maybe you would be looking forward to this, but I have to eat crow. |
| 0:43.8 | I would never glory in that sort of thing. I did notice that when you said, we have a lot to talk |
| 0:49.3 | about. I'm like, is that new? Is that different? Is there something different about this week that every other week? No, I just feel urgent about it. I have so much to say and to ask you. Okay. But I do have to start with, so last week, we were talking about the Amad Arbery case and the Kyle Rittenhouse case, two very different cases, but the verdicts were handed down last week. And several of our listeners pointed out that I made a pretty important mistake when I was sharing the details of the Kyle Rittenhouse case. |
| 1:13.8 | So I said erroneously that Kyle Rittenhouse crossed state lines with a gun, that he went from Chicago to Kenosha, Wisconsin with a gun. |
| 1:23.1 | And he didn't. So he got the gun from a friend in Wisconsin. So that's super important for several reasons. First of all, because I think he could have been legally responsible if he had brought a gun across state lines as a 17-year-old. But also our producer, Wayne, was just sharing with me some of these details that I'm really embarrassed. I didn't know. Like this wasn't a case of, |
| 1:45.2 | you know, Kyle Rittenhouse saw something on the news about Kenosha and then just decided to, |
| 1:50.0 | you know, be a vigilantean run across state lines. He had friends and family that lived in |
| 1:55.3 | Kenosha. Like he had close ties to that community, it sounds like. And our producer, Wayne, |
| 1:59.9 | was telling me all of this |
| 2:00.9 | came out during the hearings and the case. This wasn't stuff that was widely reported, which is |
| 2:06.2 | its own commentary. But I can't blame anybody else for that. I should have done more research |
| 2:10.6 | before sharing all those details. So I'm so sorry I got that wrong, but I'm thankful that people |
| 2:16.4 | took the time to point that out to us, |
| 2:18.0 | and I'm thankful for the opportunity to correct it. |
| 2:20.7 | Well, I'm glad you did. |
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