Wednesday, December 17, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the increase in the number of abortions since Dobbs, the moral and political injury the Republican Party will bring on itself if it turns its back on the pro-life movement, and the death and legacy of Rob Reiner.
Part I (00:14 – 13:39)
- Three Years After Dobbs, ‘the Reality Is People Are Getting Abortions’ by The New York Times (Soumya Karlamangla)
- Trump advisers strafe Hawley over new anti-abortion group by Axios (Alex Isenstadt)
- The Strange Tale of American Television and the Religious Left by Thinking in Public (R. Albert Mohler, Jr. and Benjamin Rolsky)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 17, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | As we think about the abortion question, there have been crucial dates that were big turning points. |
| 0:19.0 | 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized abortion in the infamous Roe v. Wade decision. |
| 0:24.9 | Then fast forward to 2002, when that same Supreme Court reversed the Roe decision, and we're |
| 0:32.0 | very thankful for that, in the Dobbs decision, and thus returned the question of abortion to the |
| 0:37.4 | states. |
| 0:37.7 | There was the hope among pro-lifers at the time that this would mean a net reduction in the |
| 0:43.1 | number of abortions performed in the United States. |
| 0:45.8 | But now it turns out that is not true. |
| 0:49.1 | And we have pretty ample documentation of the fact that there are now more abortions by |
| 0:54.1 | some counts taken seriously |
| 0:55.7 | by both sides in the debate than was true even before Dobbs. So how could that have happened? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, for one thing, we need to recognize that the entire abortion landscape changed. Now, |
| 1:06.3 | what do I mean by that? The morality changed? No, of course it didn't. But what did change was |
| 1:10.5 | technology and availability. The big change? No, of course it didn't. But what did change was technology and |
| 1:11.4 | availability. The big change is telehealth abortion and it's a Mifififristone, the abortion pill, |
| 1:18.3 | so-called medical abortions as opposed to surgical abortions. Those did not exist when Rovi-Wa |
| 1:25.1 | was handed down in 1973. Neither existed in the availability that is now the case in 2022 when Roe was reversed in the Dobbs decision. |
| 1:35.5 | The big game changer here is not just that the issue of abortion was returned to the state. |
| 1:41.3 | So you now can have a map of the United States. |
| 1:43.2 | You've got states in which |
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