It's Thursday, June 6, 2024. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Well we really are living in

interesting days yesterday in the United States Senate Democrats led by their

party leader, majority leader Chuck Schumer, Democratic Senator of New York, they pushed forward legislation

that would legalize a protection for or a right to contraception or birth control.

Now, those are not exactly the same thing.

More on that in just a moment.

Well, it was theater.

And what was that theater all about?

Well, it was all about scoring political points.

The same thing, by the way, is to be expected in the United States House of

Representatives where you have Democrats working on what's called a discharge petition to try

to push a measure to the floor just in order to embarrass Republicans.

That's exactly what the Democrats are trying to do.

And the reason for that is that as you look at the legislation, it was uniformly presented, especially in the mainstream media as

being about guaranteeing a right to birth control but when you actually look at the

text of the legislation predictably it went further than that and in particular it gets right up to the issue

of abortion and furthermore it also would deny all of the conscience protections

given to medical personnel at present.

So this really is a sinister bill and even as it was debated on the floor of the Senate yesterday,

you could see the clash of worldviews. But the New York Times had a headline, quote,

G. O. P. On spot to guarantee birth control. Similar headlines appear just about

everywhere because this was clearly a political ploy in the middle of an election year.

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