It's Wednesday, December 20, 2003.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing.

A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Now there are certain developments that mean a lot more in journalism than they do where the water hits the wheel in terms of the rest of the culture.

There are some stories that the press leaks or releases and

it's intended to be thought to be a gigantic story turns out not to be quite so

significant. But sometimes you have a major press development about a major

issue and you say, you know, this tells us a lot about what happened. It also tells us a lot

about the people who are telling us what happened and why it's important.

That's a long introduction to get to a front-page story in Sunday's edition of the New York

Times and it was intended to be a massive topic of conversation.

And it has been, but then again, not so much.

The headline is this, behind the scenes at the dismantling of Roe.

A pair of reporters, Jody Cantor, and Adam Liptic, and both are veterans covering the Supreme

Court veteran reporters.

They have done an in-depth analysis with an awful lot of background work, investigative reporting, lots of interviews with people, some are

named, some are not named strategically, about how in the world the Supreme Court came in

2022 to reverse the Rovi-. Wade decision and basically to return the question of abortion to the

states by reversing Roe. Now there are multiple questions to be addressed here, but let's just look at the story.

Let's look at the investigative report.

Let's look at the narrative they put together.

And only then will we ask the question, why did they do it this way?

And now that we know this

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