It's Thursday, August 4, 2022.

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

from a Christian worldview.

Well, the biggest news coming out of the state primary elections on Tuesday was what took place in Kansas,

and Kansas voters turned down a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have made very clear that that state's Constitution includes no right to abortion, nor a requirement that the state fund in any way abortion.

And it wasn't close, even though it was expected to go down to the wire, the vote was eventually

5941 against the proposed constitutional amendment.

Now this is ricocheting all across the country and indeed even beyond because

just weeks after the Supreme Court's reversal of the Rovi-Way decision,

this is being championed as an example of a state fighting back.

The voters basically saying they will not stand for that decision to be the law of the land in their state.

Now remember, and this is extremely important, the Dobbs decision handed down by the

Supreme Court in June did not state that abortion would be illegal in all 50

states. It simply returned the question to the states. The net effect of the infamous

1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court was to take the question away from the states and to establish by way of imagining a constitutional right to

amendment taking away the right of the states to limit abortion and most particularly

to criminalize abortion or to outlaw abortion.

Now there had been twist and turns in the last half century in terms of states

attempting sometimes successfully, to limit abortions, but

Roe v. Wade was the insurmountable obstacle to states simply preventing abortion, outlawing

all abortions, or even most abortions.

All that did change just this year when just a few weeks ago the Supreme Court reversed

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