It's Tuesday, August 20, 2024. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, of course, the big story is the news unfolding in Chicago, Illinois,

and highly orchestrated, but still somewhat unpredictable meeting of the Democratic National Convention.

Now, my purpose today is not to look at the... meeting of the Democratic National Convention.

Now my purpose today is not to look at the convention proper,

but rather to some of the big ideas that are going to be crucial

to the future of American politics.

And so we look at issues such as abortion and other moral issues and

understand that this is very much front and center of what's taking place

there in Chicago. And that is because it's not just what has happened when Joe Biden withdrew from the race and the vice president was given his endorsement.

No, it goes back to especially 2022 when the Dobbs decision was handed down by the United States

Supreme Court and what took place is that the Biden administration and of course

this came with the full endorsement of President Joe Biden who was never really pro-life in any policy

sense but moved remarkably more pro-abortion when he ran for President in

2020. It was really an effort by President Biden in the administration to assign abortion

repackaged euphemistically, dishonestly enough,

as a woman's reproductive health

to the Vice President Kamala Harris.

Now the administration had assigned her previous issues in which she had, at least in political terms,

bombed, especially her experience as the so-called border czar.

But when it came to the abortion issue,

well, Kamala Harris was a true believer

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