The Supreme Court, Abortion, and Religious Freedom
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris discuss last week's momentous Supreme Court decisions: one that handcuffs states that try to restrict abortion, and one that protects religious institutions--especially schools--from discrimination by the government.
Also on today's program: China's new security law could spell the end of democratic Hong Kong. Will other nations and especially international corporations push back on Beijing? Shane Morris shares a portion of his BreakPoint Podcast interview with Jason Thacker, author of The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Finally, John and Shane answer your questions about the Christian perspective on the death penalty and the state mandating masks in church.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with John Stone Street, President of the Colson Center for Christian World View. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris, and I'm here with John Stone Street to talk about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. |
| 0:19.7 | John, last week we talked about the Supreme |
| 0:21.8 | Court and you said that there was a lot more big decisions coming down the pike before our next |
| 0:26.3 | program and boy, that certainly turned out to be the case. We've got two big decisions that have |
| 0:31.2 | just changed the landscape of religious liberty and the abortion issue for Christians moving |
| 0:36.8 | forward. Yeah, it really did. I mean, |
| 0:38.9 | we started out with a decision having to do with abortion and went on with a decision specifically |
| 0:44.3 | dealing with Christian institutions. We could say one good, one bad, but there's also a lot of |
| 0:49.9 | undercurrent here in terms of what kind of court we have, which is a really important, I think, |
| 0:55.5 | to nail down given the kind of hysterical worry, particularly from those on the left, particularly |
| 1:01.9 | those who are pro-abortion forces about, you know, the threat of this court, in particular |
| 1:08.0 | overturning Roe v. Wade. And I think the, you know, the first take-down, |
| 1:12.4 | or the first takeaway, I guess, may be better word than takedown. The first takeaway is essentially |
| 1:18.4 | that this court is not going to be the one that overturns Roe v. Wade. And what we had instead |
| 1:23.1 | was a decision. June Medical Services versus Rousseau and you're talking about, right? Yeah, the June Medical services versus Rousseau, and you're talking about, right? |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah, the June medical services versus Rousseau, which has had to do what we, let's lay the |
| 1:34.0 | groundwork. It had to do with the Louisiana law, which in many ways was patterned after a Texas |
| 1:38.6 | law that the court had struck down, I think in 2016, which basically required abortion providers, abortionists, to have |
| 1:47.2 | hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of where they were performing abortions. |
| 1:53.2 | And in Texas, of course... |
| 1:54.2 | Which is standard for surgery centers. |
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