It's Monday, August 8, 2022. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Last week the big news on abortion was bad news out of Kansas.

This week it is good news out of Indiana.

But what we are watching is the shifting of the tectonic plates of morality and politics in the United States,

the Supreme Court's reversal of the Rovi Wade decision that took place just in June at the very

end of that month is set loose. A cascade of political responses

just as we expected would be the case. And even as the High Court said that

their purpose in reversing Roe v. Wade was to return the question to the people

and their elected representatives, well that's pretty much what's going on. In Kansas, it was a referendum.

It went badly for the cause of life. Big lessons to be learned there. In Indiana, it went well. It went very well for the cause of the sanctity of human life.

Indiana's legislature adopted a near total ban on abortion that offers exemptions only in the case of rape, incest, lethal, fetal abnormality, or when the procedure is necessary to prevent severe health risk or death. Now, we're going to be looking is passed the legislation was approved if it went to the governor's desk

Governor Eric Holcomb signed the bill almost immediately,

signed it within minutes of its adoption by the legislature.

So here we're looking at two different states and they are not

moral or political extremes in the United States. For one thing both Kansas and

Indiana are stereotypically Republican but at the same time we're not looking at the

same measure. The state of Kansas does not have an unregulated abortion

context. It has limitations upon abortion, but nonetheless, the vote by the people of Kansas

rather overwhelmingly to turn down a constitutional amendment last week was extremely

disappointing for the cause of human life, unborn human life.

But looking at the situation in Indiana, it's quite encouraging, but it also tells us a great

deal.

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