It's Thursday, August 15, 2024.

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

worldview.

Well, just about everyone in the world knows that the United States is facing a presidential

election in November, but it's also really important as preeminent as the presidential election is on our political landscape.

It is really important that Christians keep in mind there are other big questions on the ballot as well.

First of all, in well, roughly half the states you've got

gubernatorial elections and you have the entire House of Representatives and you have

about a third of the United States Senate and of course you have state by state legislative elections and other issues on

the ballot today I want to talk about one particular issue on the ballot and

that is abortion it might not be directly on the ballot in your state, but it is going to be on the ballot

directly in several states.

Now here's where before we even get to the state by state analysis we need to understand first of all

what we're facing here and second what recent experience has taught us. What we are facing

is the fact that the abortion rights movement is really refocusing its energies state by state.

Now that's not to say that they are giving up in any way on legislating pro-abortion laws in terms of Congress. It is to say that they're waiting for the presidential

election and they're waiting for the next Congress to be elected before they put much

effort into that. Meanwhile the full court press is at the level of the states.

Now, just recall that this is really now an urgent issue precisely because in 2022.

The Supreme Court of the United States reversed the Roe v. Wade decision in the decision known as Dobbs.

In that decision, what was most important is that the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.

That's an enormous gain for the pro-life

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