Thursday, March 19, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the advance of radical abortion legislation in Britain up to the moment of birth, the teaming up of conservative Christians and liberal feminists against the Atlanta Hawks over a strip club promotion, and the strife between Timothée Chalamet and the elites of the opera and ballet industries.
Part I (00:13 – 08:30)
A Dark Day in Britain: House of Lords Advances Radical Abortion Legislation for Women—Up to the Moment of Birth
- Britain is about to make a sickening change to the abortion law by The Telegraph (Allison Pearson)
The Culture of Death is Coming for the West: The Culture of Death’s Win in Britain Will Not Stay There, and It Will Not Stop at Abortion
Part III (14:46 – 21:36)
Conservative Christians and Liberal Feminists Square Off with the Atlanta Hawks: Controversy Erupts as the Hawks Wanted a Strip Club Promotion
- It Was Going to Be Magic City Night at the Atlanta Hawks. Then the Outrage Poured In. by The New York Times (Tania Ganguli and Jonathan Abrams)
‘No One Cares About Opera and Ballet’: Timothée Chalamet Stirs Up Strife with the Elites of a Dying Entertainment Industry
- How Timothée Chalamet Made Enemies of Opera and Ballet Stars by The Wall Street Journal (Elias Leight)
- Timothée Chalamet Is Right: Ballet and Opera Are Struggling by The Wall Street Journal (Robert Steven Mack)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 19, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.1 | I want to tell you right up front that I have waited until the very last moment to record this because I wanted to know what the House of |
| 0:21.8 | Lords would vote on one of the most important issues laden with moral concern to face Britain |
| 0:29.0 | in a very long time. It is a bill that would effectively authorize a woman to seek an abortion |
| 0:36.2 | or to bring about the abortion of her baby all the way up |
| 0:38.5 | until the moment of birth and as of last night it was adopted in such a way that it was passed |
| 0:45.6 | on without amendments that were attempted by some to strip that provision out of larger legislation |
| 0:51.9 | this is really a very dark day And the lessons here are not just for |
| 0:55.7 | the United Kingdom, for Britain. The lessons here are for all of us. And we need to take stock of what |
| 1:01.1 | has just happened. And we need to understand how it happened. First of all, the immediate question, |
| 1:05.8 | how did it happen has to do with the history of this legislation. This particular provision |
| 1:10.6 | was worked into an omnibus |
| 1:13.6 | law concerning legal reform there in England under the leadership of the Labor Party in control |
| 1:20.3 | the House of Commons. So, in other words, this was not a standalone bill that would have removed |
| 1:25.2 | all criminal considerations for a woman seeking an abortion |
| 1:29.0 | in a late-term pregnancy. That's not the way this went through the House of Commons. It went through |
| 1:33.3 | the lower house, the House of Commons as simply something that was buried in a larger piece of |
| 1:38.2 | legislation, something we all have to watch all the time. And sometimes that kind of radical action can be embedded in something else. |
| 1:47.0 | And so a lot of people in Britain, a lot of people in the UK didn't even notice that it happened |
| 1:52.0 | when it happened months ago. They just didn't notice. It took some time for the notice to take effect. |
| 1:57.0 | And so you had pro-life activists and others who were just crying out and saying, |
| 2:06.6 | look, this is a disaster. This is a moral meltdown. This is the culture of death and overdrive. And so next, there were efforts undertaken to try to turn the bill back or radically to revise it |
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