It's Wednesday, August 9, 2023. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing. A daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Bad news out of Ohio yesterday

and into last night. It had to do with an election held there in Ohio with a very particular

purpose, one basic question before the electorate there. And that was whether or not to change

and in this sense to raise the level of votes necessary to amend the state's Constitution.

Now, you might say, what's that got to do with abortion? Well, in this case, virtually

everything. Because the background of this is that in November, the voters there in

Ohio are going to be facing the question of abortion, and they're going to be facing

it by a pro-abortion movement that is trying to put in the Ohio Constitution a far more

liberal position on abortion, basically shifting abortion away from anything that can be made

illegal until at least the time the unborn baby is declared to be viable. That would be

a more liberal position than where the Ohio legislation stands right now, but that's

being contested in court as well. There are some big issues here for us to note. The

most important thing for us to see is that the issue of abortion is exploding all over

this country in ways that the pro-life movement in one sense asked for, but is clearly not

ready for. When I say the pro-life movement asked for this, I mean, we were working hard

for a matter of decades for the reversal of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.

That 1973 decision infamous as it deserves to be established a woman so-called right to

an abortion, it made it very difficult for states throughout the term of a woman's pregnancy

basically to limit access to abortion and thus to protect unborn human life. The reversal

of Roe v. Wade came, well, just over a year ago, and that opened the door for states to

move towards more restrictive laws on abortion laws that would protect unborn life. Ohio

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