Monday, January 24, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:37)
America Marks the 49th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: Will it Be the Last? A Look at the March for Life and its OppositionAnti-Abortion Protesters Optimistic at March for Life in DC by Associated Press (Ashraf Khalil, Kevin Freking, Paul J. Weber, and Emily Wagster Pettus)With Roe in Doubt, States Act on Abortion Limits, Expansions by Associated Press (Lindsay Whitehurst)Anti-Abortion Marchers Gather With an Eye on the Supreme Court by New York Times (Kate Zernike and Madeleine Ngo)Part II (10:37 - 18:13)
‘Jane Roe Did Nothing Besides Sign A Paper That Said She Doesn’t Want to be Pregnant’: Sarah Weddington and the Road to Roe v. WadeThe Family Roe: An American Story by W. W. Norton (Joshua Prager)Part III (18:13 - 26:18)
Evidence of the Conscience, Rooted in the Image of God: Vast Majority of Doctors Avoid Abortion Practice Like the PlagueIn Medicine, a Lack of Courage Has Helped Put Roe in Jeopardy by New York Times (Eyal Press)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, |
| 0:05.0 | Monday, January 24, 2022. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, |
| 0:10.7 | a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.4 | Yesterday, January 23rd, 2022 was the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court's infamous Roe v. |
| 0:21.2 | Wade decision, legalizing abortion. |
| 0:24.2 | We're going to have to take a closer look at this anniversary and what it means, but we also |
| 0:28.3 | need to recognize that on Saturday, the annual March for Life was held in Washington DC. |
| 0:34.3 | Let's go back to 1973. |
| 0:36.7 | By that time everyone knew, at least everyone watching the court and everyone |
| 0:41.0 | involved in the abortion issue issue knew that the Supreme Court |
| 0:44.0 | was about to hand down a huge precedent. That's because the Supreme Court doesn't have to |
| 0:48.5 | take cases like Roe v. Wade and taking the case was an indication that at least a significant number of |
| 0:54.3 | jurists wanted to move in the direction of legalizing abortion. More specifically |
| 0:59.2 | at least several of the justices we knew by then had already agreed to take this case which |
| 1:05.1 | challenged the constitutionality of certain state statutes criminalizing |
| 1:10.0 | outlawing or restricting abortion. |
| 1:12.7 | By the time the case was handed down, the Supreme Court had actually heard not only |
| 1:16.4 | one set of oral arguments, but two because the transition on the court itself. |
| 1:21.6 | America was waiting to see how the Supreme Court would rule and on |
| 1:24.6 | January the 23rd 1973 it did rule and it ruled in a way that basically put the |
| 1:31.5 | court in the position of deciding that it would legislate the |
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