Monday, May 18, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 05:59)
When Will the Nation Get This Right? The Supreme Court Hands Down a Disappointing Ruling on Abortion Drug Mifepristone
Part II (05:59 – 13:58)
Statecraft Is Stagecraft: President Trump Returns from State Visit to China
Part III (13:58 – 19:24)
An Astounding Political Development: C.I.A. Director Makes Historic Visit to Cuba
- C.I.A. Director Visits Cuba as Tensions Rise and Island Runs Out of Oil by The New York Times (Julian E. Barnes, Michael Crowley, and Frances Robles)
Be Grateful the U.S. Is Not in Something Like the EU: Poland Recognizes So-Called Same-Sex Marriage for the First Time
- Warsaw recognizes same-sex marriage from other EU countries for the first time by Le Monde
- Poland Registers First Legally Recognized Same-Sex Marriage after EU Push by Hungarian Conservative (Joakim Scheffer)
A Moment of Moral Clarity for the European Union: Why Christian Parents Should Be Even More Concerned about the Threat of Social Media Than the EU
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, May 18, 2026. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing. A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. The culture of life and the culture of death are locked into a long-term battle. We have known that for decades now. The 20th century made that point abundantly clear. |
| 0:23.6 | And the Supreme Court of the United States made that fight also very clear just last week. |
| 0:28.4 | Going into the end of the week, the Supreme Court handed down a very disappointing ruling |
| 0:32.6 | that basically put back in place the Biden administration policy with the Food and Drug |
| 0:37.8 | Administration that allowed women to gain Mithopristone the abortion pill without a doctor |
| 0:43.2 | visit and by distribution through the mail. And that basically is a way of contravening |
| 0:49.4 | the results of the Dobbs decision in 2022 returning the abortion question to the states what was not |
| 0:56.2 | foreseen at that time is the fact that medication abortion the use of the abortion pill would |
| 1:00.9 | escalate in such a way that on the other side of Dobbs with the Roe v. Wade decision reversed back in |
| 1:08.1 | 2022 horrifyingly enough there are more abortions now than before the Dobbs |
| 1:13.5 | decision and the reason is straightforward it is miffipristone it is the abortion pill it is so-called |
| 1:19.5 | medication abortion so let's just remind yourselves what's his stake here the state of louisiana |
| 1:24.5 | had filed a federal lawsuit against the policy of the Food and Drug Administration, |
| 1:30.4 | and that went to the district court. It eventually got up to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, |
| 1:35.8 | which is seated in New Orleans. And that court basically found for the state of Louisiana |
| 1:41.0 | and said that the state of Louisiana has sued rightly and the food |
| 1:45.9 | and drug administration had acted wrongly. That basically shut down the interstate commerce |
| 1:51.1 | of Mithrapristone, that specific drug. And it also made very clear that the food and drug |
| 1:57.0 | administration just had not really done its work, and this should not be separated from, |
| 2:02.0 | A, a doctor's visit, and it shouldn't be separated from the normal means of medical distribution. |
| 2:07.9 | Instead of making it so widely available by mail, that's the really, really dark part of all |
| 2:13.4 | of this. But what we saw was almost immediately, Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative, consistent |
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