It's Monday, December 15, 2025.

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

The entire field of science fiction, as it emerged particularly in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, was an attempt to try to create futuristic narratives.

And usually they were put in the future because they were rather unimaginable in the present.

And so much of the science fiction that emerged very famously from authors like Isaac Asimov and others,

they were really set in the future close enough

that it was imaginable that we could see ourselves there,

but far enough that all kinds of futuristic plot lines,

developments, technologies, robots, for example,

aliens, for example, those could be incorporated.

Sometimes it's kind of difficult to tell the difference between

fact and fiction when it comes to some of the accounts that we see coming at us in the media.

That's why it's particularly important to know that what we're about to talk about is factual.

It is reported in the Wall Street Journal. It is fact checked. It is subject to all the standards of the Wall Street Journal.

Thus, I'm going to tell you that you should brace yourself for this headline, quote,

The Chinese billionaires having dozens of U.S. born babies via surrogate. So the headline tells us

that there are Chinese billionaires having, the number here is dozens of U.S.-born babies

through the technology of surrogate parenting.

And so let's just look at that.

We're going to talk about IVF.

We're going to talk about the embryos.

We're going to talk about surrogate motherhood here.

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