Wednesday, August 20, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the pro-life movement’s fight for life, the Left’s call to defend all abortions up until the moment of birth, the horror of late-term abortions, and the need for pro-lifers to understand the Left’s arguments and goals.
Part I (00:14 – 08:25)
The Fight for Life is of First Priority: The Pro-Life Movement Cannot Be Lethargic
Part II (08:25 – 17:05)
The Left’s Call to Defend All Abortions: The Growing Momentum on the Left is the Elimination of Any Restriction on Abortions – Yes, Even Until the Moment of Birth
- What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions? by The Nation (Amy Littlefield)
‘I Got Emotional Once the Baby Started Moving’: The Horror of the Experience of Late-Term Abortions On Display
Part IV (21:08 – 26:24)
Pro-Lifers Must Understand the Argument From Its Enemies – Christians Must Remind Ourselves What We Believe and We Must Be Faithful
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, August 20, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | The issue of abortion tends to rise and fall in the nation's consciousness having to do usually with some kind of court decision or some |
| 0:21.9 | kind of major legislative move, some executive order coming from a White House. But one of the |
| 0:28.1 | things Christians need to recognize is that our moral concern for abortion, the Christian |
| 0:32.9 | worldview urgency of abortion, it doesn't wax and weight. It is a constant we need to keep very much |
| 0:39.2 | on our minds. And as we think about our country, we think about our own context. And frankly, |
| 0:44.8 | those outside the United States, you're dealing with your own context in terms of the protection |
| 0:49.7 | of unborn life and the relative vulnerability of unborn life. The fact is that Christians have to watch |
| 0:56.1 | what's going on in the culture and try to seize every opportunity to make change in a pro-life |
| 1:01.3 | direction. But the other big problem, to be honest, is lethargy among those who consider themselves |
| 1:06.8 | pro-life. And frankly, a kind of guilty ignorance or naivete on the part of a lot of conservatives |
| 1:15.2 | and a lot of conservative Christians who consider themselves pro-life of what we're actually |
| 1:18.8 | talking about. And so from time to time, we need to look at developments in the culture and |
| 1:23.1 | recognize this is a wake-up call about where we stand. Now, the big issue I want us to consider today |
| 1:28.4 | is the fact that what we have, becoming more and more clear on the abortion question, is that |
| 1:34.2 | there are two and only two arguments. Now, one of the points I try to make in worldview analysis |
| 1:39.2 | is that that's almost always the case. When you're dealing with an issue of grave moral significance, |
| 1:46.1 | basically there's a right side and a wrong side. There's an argument based in truth, |
| 1:51.5 | and there's an argument based in a lie. Now, that makes this kind of issue fundamentally different |
| 1:56.9 | than, say, looking at some of the intricacies of arguing over trade policy or tax |
| 2:05.2 | policy, some kind of fiscal issue, some kind of argument over the degree to which there should be |
| 2:12.5 | or should not be regulation over some part of the financial industry. This is a very different thing. |
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