Thursday, May 18, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:09)
Political Drama in North Carolina Over Abortion: State Senate Overrides Democratic Governor’s Veto of Abortion Ban in Win for Pro-Life Movement
Part II (10:09 - 15:33)
Family Lines Drawn Over the Helms Amendment: Granddaughter of Senator Jesse Helms Fights to Undo Grandfather’s Work on Abortion
- NC abortion ban is an extreme extension of my grandfather's legacy. I'm working to undo it. by USA Today (Ellen Gaddy)
Part III (15:33 - 18:19)
The Pro-Abortion Movement’s Internal Fight Over Strategy — The Debate? Its Use of the Word ‘Woman’
- Abortion Access Keeps Winning Elections by New York Times (David Leonhardt and Lyna Bentahar)
Part IV (18:19 - 22:18)
JPMorgan Discriminates on the Basis of Religious Beliefs?: Nation's Largest Bank Faces Reckoning on Handling of Religious Accounts
- JPMorgan Targeted by Republican States Over Accusations of Religious Bias by Wall Street Journal (Jathon Sapsford)
Part V (22:18 - 25:28)
Who’s Regulating the Regulators?: When a Bank Fails, Every Person in Leadership Needs to Be Held Accountable
- SVB’s Greg Becker Tells His Story by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 18, 2023. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.1 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | Big headlines out of the state of North Carolina, giant political news, a lot of conflict |
| 0:18.2 | big worldview dimensions. |
| 0:20.0 | We're talking about the fact that as North Carolina went into the weekend, on Saturday, |
| 0:24.7 | this Democratic governor, Roy Cooper vetoed a pro-life bill that had been passed by the |
| 0:30.8 | Republican-dominated legislature. |
| 0:33.1 | So here's the setup. |
| 0:34.4 | Last week, the Republican legislature passed what amounts to a 12-week abortion ban that |
| 0:39.6 | means a ban on all abortions after 12 weeks, a lot more restrictive than was currently |
| 0:45.0 | in place in the state of North Carolina. |
| 0:47.5 | But then you had the Democratic governor of North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper, actually |
| 0:51.8 | decided to go for a bit of political theater last Saturday by basically holding a rally |
| 0:57.6 | in order to publicly veto the bill that had been adopted by the legislature. |
| 1:03.4 | So that set up an interesting political equation, but just how interesting could it be? |
| 1:08.0 | Well, this interesting, folks, because as it turns out, every single vote for the legislation |
| 1:13.9 | would have to hold if there was to be an override of the governor's veto. |
| 1:18.3 | If even one of the members of the North Carolina Senate had changed his or her vote, there |
| 1:23.1 | would be no override. |
| 1:24.8 | But yesterday, there was an override. |
| 1:27.3 | The legislature overrode the governor's veto of the bill, and thus this particular ban |
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