It's Thursday, September 19, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, sometimes the big news is in the headlines you expect, and we expected the

Democrats to try to push through legislation to their political advantage on IVF. But nonetheless, even as this was something of a political

stunt, at the same time in worldview terms, it's immensely important. So we're going to pay some attention to this. We're going to look at what happened and why.

First of all, that what happened, you could also explain is what didn't happen. The Senate didn't pass

legislation that would have affirmed IVF rights as defined by the

sponsoring Democrats in all 50 states. The bill lost by a vote of 51 to 44 with

five senators absent from the vote. It would have required 60 votes in order to pass the Senate given the

filibuster rule. And so as you're looking at this you recognize this was

something that was done with Democrats

knowing it was going to fail and they wanted to send a signal they wanted to turn

this to their political advantage in light of the November election and most

importantly by the way this is not so much

about the presidential election as it is about statewide elections for the Senate

and elections of course for the House of Representatives as well. This is

primarily though about the Senate.

And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, was open in the fact that it was a blatantly

political move. Speaking Tuesday on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Schumer said, quote,

there is perhaps no more personal a decision

one can make than the decision of whether or not

to start a family.

Well, that's a true statement in one sense, but it doesn't imply why the United States

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