It's Monday, April 10, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Rarely is a weekend so consequential as the days just pass when it comes to major news

stories.

Of course, as Christians around the world were celebrating the resurrection of the Lord

Jesus Christ from the dead, the world was not standing still.

That's certainly the case in the United States.

Huge news stories, every one of them important, and most of them coming with very significant

worldview dimensionality.

So let's just look first of all at what might be most urgent.

Most urgent, in terms of the headlines, is probably what took place on Friday evening

when federal judge Matthew Kismarik handed down a decision saying that the FDA, the Food

and Drug Administration, had acted hastily in approving a specific abortion drug.

It happens to be the most popular drug used in pharmaceutical abortion.

Does Kismarik's ruling says that Mifapristone was approved wrongly by the FDA, and basically

if allowed to stand, this federal judge's ruling would have a nationwide effect in terms

of at least putting on hold the sale and distribution of this abortion medication.

Very, very interestingly, and we'll have to look at this more closely in days ahead,

this federal judge went back to 1873 and what was known as the Comstock Act, and that

act prohibits mailing anything that is, quote, obscene, lood, lascivious, indecent, filthy,

or vile.

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