It's Monday, January 23, 2023.

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

a Christian worldview.

Yesterday marked exactly 50 years since the Supreme Court of the United States handed down

its infamous Roe v. Wade decision.

And the 50th anniversary of one of these major turning points in America's moral history

demands some closer attention today.

It's a very sober matter to look back at 50 years of Roe v. Wade, remembering of course

that just this past June, it was struck down by a new conservative majority on the United

States Supreme Court.

But as we shall see, that was a necessary but woefully insignificant victory in the cause

of contending for life, the dignity and sanctity of every single human life, including life

in the womb.

But as you look back at this 50 year anniversary, it's also important for us to go back and

ask the question, how could this have happened in the first place?

Well, this is a point at which conservative, biblically minded Christians need to remind

ourselves that you can't just jump to something like a woman so called right to abortion.

You just can't jump to something like Roe v. Wade.

There has to be some kind of framework that is built, some kind of roadway that is constructed.

And the reality is, all of that came with massive social and moral changes in the middle

of the 20th century.

But those actually accelerated some tendencies that had emerged even earlier.

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