It's Monday, June 17, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States in a unanimous ruling turned down a legal

challenge to the abortion drug Miffa Pristone. This is big news and it was expected to be big news and frankly

there are a lot of Supreme Court decisions that are yet due before the court ends its term in a matter of just days.

But this particular case is one that had a lot of importance for the pro-life movement,

and one number will tell you why.

About 60%, it is estimated, of all abortions performed in the United States right now

are done by the abortion pill medication abortions as they are known.

And this is something that is fairly new. The pill goes back a matter of decades in France,

but its popularity in the United States is something that is now being driven not only by the economics of abortion and frankly even by the anonymity of being able to get these pills in many cases

But also by the Dobbs decision handed down by the Supreme Court that reversed the Roe v. Wade decision and even as there are state laws that are

still applicable against Miffipristone and other abortion medications in

certain states the reality is that this was a big case It was a full attack upon the edifice of medication abortion.

It was a straightforward effort to try to end the use of Mifapristone, one of two drugs used by the way,

in medication abortion, and to do so by arguing for

one thing that the FDA had rushed the approval process. Now what's really

interesting very important for us to note, is that this was a unanimous ruling by the US Supreme Court.

So that needs to alert you to something.

When you hear an issue like abortion and then you hear a unanimous ruling that tells you that

there's something going on here that isn't really about abortion really isn't

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