It's Tuesday, August 15, 2023.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

We're looking at a country deeply divided at the most basic issue of worldview.

And one of the issues that makes us most demonstrable, of course, is the issue of abortion.

Pro-Life Americans have been working so long for what was realized in June of 2022 in

the Dobbs decision striking down Roe v. Wade from 1973.

That was an essential achievement for the pro-life movement.

At the same time, it has also increased our workload.

It has increased, or at least made more clear, the challenge that is before us.

In these blue and even bluer states, in the red and even redder states, we have two

different sets of circumstances.

But at least one thing that was not adequately foreseen is the extent to which some of the

blue states would turn bluer than would previously have been imaginable.

Now what am I talking about?

Let me just give you the example of two states, number one, California.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has turned himself into the darling of the left

wing of the Democratic Party, is trying to do everything possible not only to prove that

his state is a haven, as he would say, for abortion providers.

But he's even asking and inviting women to come from other states.

Of course, since he is Gavin Newsom and it is California, we'll have to say pregnant

people rather than women.

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