Tuesday, August 12, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the shipment of 100,000 abortion pill packs between 2023 and 2024 to states that have outlawed abortion, the shift in American thinking on marriage and the acceptance of so-called LGBTQ “marriage” and “having children,” the destruction of feminism as women are now less likely to desire children than men, the resilience of marriage in creation order, and the hypocrisy of marriage by elites who advocate for progressive models of marriage but whose own marriages look comparatively conservative.
Part I (00:13 – 06:44)
A Giant Subversion of Life by Pill: New JAMA Study Shows 100,000 Abortion Pill Packs Were Sent to Recipients in States Where Abortion is Illegal
- Medication abortions drove up number of US procedures after Roe’s repeal, study shows by The Guardian (Carter Sherman)
The Broken American Marriage Framework: The Shift in the American Mind on LGBTQ “Marriage” and “Having Children”
- Majorities of LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ U.S. adults under 50 want to get married someday by Pew Research Center (Kiley Hurst and Blen Wondimu)
The Destruction of Feminism: Women are Now Less Likely to Want Children Than Men
Part IV (15:42 – 23:09)
Is Marriage as a Social Institution in the U.S. Thriving or Dying? New Evidence Suggests Its Strength and Resilience
- Why Marriage Survives: The institution has adapted, and is showing new signs of resilience. by The Atlantic (Brad Wilcox)
The Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage: The Higher the Elite Status, the More In Tact the Family Structures Become
- The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage by The Atlantic (Brad Wilcox)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, August 12, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | Some really big issues we need to look at today. |
| 0:15.0 | Here's the first headline, |
| 0:17.0 | Medication Abortions drove up number of U.S. procedures after Rose Repeal study shows. |
| 0:22.2 | Okay, this is The Guardian. Liberal newspaper coming from Great Britain often has some very |
| 0:27.7 | interesting coverage of American issues, and in this case, it's big news, particularly for Christians |
| 0:32.3 | listening to this kind of headline, knowing what's behind it. |
| 0:35.7 | This report by Carter Sherman tells us, quote, |
| 0:38.5 | an abortion provider, so that's one abortion provider, shipped almost 120,000 packs of |
| 0:44.0 | abortion pills to U.S. residents between July, 2003 and August, 2024. Okay, so let's just hear that |
| 0:51.0 | again. One provider, nearly 120,000 packs of abortion pills. |
| 0:56.3 | Now listen to this. |
| 0:57.7 | Nearly 100,000 of them lived in states that outlaw the procedure or have laws on the books that ban the mailing of abortion pills. |
| 1:06.4 | Now, that's just coming from The Guardian, which, by the way, started out as a newspaper in Manchester, England, very liberal, left-wing. |
| 1:14.8 | At one point, pretty much a clearly socialist in its leaning. |
| 1:19.1 | It is now online a very popular, widely read news source coming from Great Britain, and it's simply now known as the Guardian. But this particular |
| 1:29.8 | report cites an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. So this just isn't |
| 1:35.6 | reporting coming from the newspaper. It is the newspaper distilling what was released in a far |
| 1:42.2 | more authoritative source, in this case, the Journal of the American |
| 1:45.0 | Medical Association. The numbers again, one provider shipping almost 120,000 packs of abortion |
| 1:50.6 | pills to U.S. residents between July 23 and August 24, so that's one year. The vast majority, |
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