It's Tuesday, April 5th, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

On so many basic issues and by that I do mean basic at the base foundational fundamental issues,

Americans are now separated, American communities are now separated, and increasingly American states are now separated.

We see this on the abortion issue looking at clearly pro-life states, and that would include,

for example, the state of Mississippi and other states that have passed legislation

that would restrict abortion in a way that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.

Remember, the Supreme Court will be ruling on that Mississippi law just in coming weeks.

You see those states and then you see states like, for example, Illinois and California, New

York, California in particular, this is it actually wants to become something like a abortion tourism state, a destination state for those from less pro-abortion states who might be seeking an abortion.

But what about some of the states that might be so-called swing states

states that are unpredictable or at least in some way split or in the middle?

Consider a state like Arizona.

Now for a long time Arizona was a blue state then

for a long time it was basically a red state now well it's at least somewhat

up for grabs but this much is certain there are a lot of social conservatives

in the state of Arizona.

And Arizona's Republican governor has just in recent days signed into law several pieces of legislation, including one that adds new restrictions on abortion

in the state of Arizona and another that limits transgender treatments for underage citizens of Arizona. That is for minors.

Ray Stern reporting for the Arizona Republic on the second issue said this quote

Governor Doug Dusy signed two bills last week that make Arizona the fifth state to restrict sports participation for transgender athletes this year,

and third to place limits on surgeries for transgender youth.

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