Tuesday, November 18, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the push for advanced reproductive technologies in politics, new research that shows teenage girls want to be married less than their male counterparts, and that 1 in 5 U.S. women say they want to leave the country.
Part I (00:14 – 07:12)
Politics and IVF: There is a Big Push for Advanced Reproductive Technologies, and Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows
- They Can’t Stand Trump. But His I.V.F. Policy Might Help Them Have Children. by The New York Times (Caroline Kitchener)
Motherhood Hopes, Feminist Dreams, and IVF: Feminist New York Times Contributor Makes an Astounding Argument
- Here’s What Trump Should Actually Do for Fertility by The New York Times (Ruxandra Teslo)
- She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges. by The New York Times (David Gauvey Herbert)
‘Do You Want to Get Married Someday?’: New Research Shows Teenage Girls Want to Be Married Less Than Their Male Counterparts – This is a Massive Shift
- 12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday by Pew Research Center (Dana Braga)
1 in 5 U.S. Women Say They Want to Leave the Country? This is Political Posturing, But It Makes Headlines
- Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. by Gallup (Benedict Vigers and Julie Ray)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, November 18, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | We have seen so many major headlines in recent months, and of course, even in recent years, but lately, largely because of the |
| 0:22.7 | second term of President Donald Trump. There have been many headlines about the administration's |
| 0:28.5 | policy on IVF in vitro fertilization and assisted reproductive technologies and what all of this |
| 0:34.7 | means. In recent days, the New York Times ran an article. It made the front |
| 0:38.1 | page of yesterday's print edition. They basically said that there are liberals in the United States |
| 0:43.8 | who don't like President Trump, but they do like what he's been doing on IVF. Now, let's just |
| 0:50.2 | back up for a minute and remind ourselves of what the Trump administration has done. |
| 0:55.1 | Back during the time that the president was running for a second term, the issue of IVF and |
| 1:00.2 | reproductive technologies came up. It came up because of a decision handed down by the state |
| 1:06.1 | Supreme Court in Alabama that declared frozen embryos to be human persons and thus to find that there was |
| 1:15.1 | genuine loss in the destruction of human embryos. And that was immediately, by the way, |
| 1:22.7 | the catalyst for all kinds of cries about the end of IVF and what this would mean. The Alabama legislature |
| 1:29.9 | actually just turned around and adopted legislation to protect IVF technologies. As I said at the time, |
| 1:36.4 | I think that was a grave mistake. Nonetheless, they did it and they did it because of political pressure. |
| 1:40.9 | President Trump observing this when he was running in the 2024 election, decided to get |
| 1:45.7 | out in front of it. And he said something that's profoundly right, but he followed it with something |
| 1:51.8 | that I think is profoundly problematic. What is profoundly right is that he points to the fact that we |
| 1:57.7 | have a falling birth rate and that having babies is a very good thing. |
| 2:03.2 | And you'll notice that the president spoke of this in the context of marriage. He spoke of the |
| 2:09.2 | context of a married couple, finding it very difficult to have children and turning to assisted |
| 2:14.5 | reproductive technologies in order to try to achieve pregnancy and thus a baby. |
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