It's Monday, June 6, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. The issue of

abortion is front and center right now in the American conscience and the

American consciousness. And of course this comes with massive issues of

worldview importance and what could be more important in this sense

as we're thinking about current headlines and the sanctity and dignity of every single human life.

Well that doesn't just end as an issue with abortion but it

certainly starts there and as we are looking at headlines right now about abortion the

big news over the weekend is that two different organizations, the Gallup Organization and the Wall Street Journal,

have released polls indicating that right now a majority of Americans, more Americans than

not, say that they support something like a pro-choice

or some form of a pro-abortion position.

Now what does that tell us?

Well for one thing, it tells us that this is where the question stands in this kind of nationwide

sample right now.

But looking at both of these studies, what's most interesting is the fact that both of them indicate a change and in both of them a change that probably

is coming after the leaked Supreme Court document that would represent a reversal of Roe v. Wade and thus a completely different constitutional

and legal order in the United States, at least at the national level when it comes to abortion.

Something else we need to recognize is that the most cited of these surveys or polls

comes from the Gallup organization and that's the longest standing American public opinion firm, and it goes back to George Gallup it goes back to the rise of this kind of statistical

opinion study in the United States in the 20th century one of the things we shall see is that there are huge worldview

issues here. There are also just some huge mathematical or survey instrument

issues for us to address. But first of all, let's just look at the story.

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