Monday, December 8, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 09:01)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, December 8, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | Sometimes there are issues with really big worldview significance that don't get a lot of national attention, and they should. Because for one thing, today we're |
| 0:22.5 | going to be talking about a national issue that is a very important pro-life issue. This has to do with |
| 0:27.9 | IVF, assisted reproductive technologies, IVF in vitro fertilization. This is the process whereby the male |
| 0:34.7 | and the female cell are brought together in a laboratory setting.os are created and in the general process the general application of the IVF procedure multiple embryos are made and that's one of the big problems there's a fundamental problem I would argue with alienating the process from the conjugal act, that is to say, |
| 0:55.4 | from the act of marriage. But the larger significance is the fact that pro-lifers have to look |
| 1:01.5 | at the discarding and destruction of these embryos. Also, the sorting and quality screening of these |
| 1:08.1 | embryos, something that is deeply inherently, morally, murderously |
| 1:12.3 | wrong. |
| 1:13.3 | And the IVF is right now a very crucial issue in one particular respect. |
| 1:18.4 | This has to do with TRICARE, the reauthorization for the medical coverage for military |
| 1:23.3 | personnel in the U.S. armed forces, particularly for medical facilities outside of the military |
| 1:30.1 | facilities themselves. Now, this is a big issue because you're talking about millions of Americans |
| 1:34.8 | within the U.S. military covered by this. And you had people in both the House and in the Senate, |
| 1:41.2 | Representative Sarah Jacobs in the House, Senator Tammy Duckworth in the Senate, |
| 1:46.0 | they've been pressing for the full inclusion of IVF for all personnel. Now, this is really a much |
| 1:53.5 | bigger issue than it may even sound at first. And it was Speaker Johnson who pulled this out of the |
| 1:59.3 | authorization bill last year out of the insurance coverage for TRICARE. |
| 2:03.6 | And he is doing it again, and he is under direct fire. |
| 2:07.7 | He deserves our support. |
| 2:09.3 | There's a very important reason why at this juncture, this has to take place. |
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