It's Tuesday, December 12, 2023.

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

First an update on the situation in Texas, which as of right now is not exactly a situation in Texas.

That's because Kate Cox, the Dallas area woman who had sought by going to the court to gain

authorization for what she considered or claimed to be a medically qualified abortion.

She had a district court basically rule with her until the

Texas Supreme Court put that on hold. Well the news this morning came that she

has left the state of Texas in order to get the abortion. Let's just remind ourselves of what is at stake here.

Yesterday we talked on the briefing about the fact that when you have so many people talk about abortion,

they talk about exceptions for the life and health of the mother.

And from a Christian moral perspective, those two issues are not irrelevant, the life and health

of the mother.

But the most important thing to recognize is that that particular language emerged

from a situation in which the pro-abortion argument basically came down to making the argument

that every single woman should be presumed to be

seeking an abortion under whatever circumstances that might be found in order to preserve

her life and health. A part of that is because health became redefined as not only

physical health, but psychological health, which basically meant that so many women

were in the position where they could simply claim that the unintended pregnancy or the unwanted pregnancy

was something that affected their mental health or threatened their mental

health.

And you could see how that supposed exemption just became what was basically the rule

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