Wednesday, December 3, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses oral arguments at SCOTUS on an Orwellian subpoena directed at a crisis pregnancy center in New Jersey, conservative birth rates, and reading and evaluating arguments closely–like the big difference between “not totally true” and “totally not true.”
Part I (00:12 – 10:38)
An Orwellian Subpoena from New Jersey Goes to SCOTUS: SCOTUS Hears Oral Argument Over Crisis Pregnancy Center in New Jersey – This is Big
- Court appears sympathetic to faith-based pregnancy centers’ argument by SCOTUS Blog (Amy Howe)
Are We Looking at a Conservative Birth Rate? New Reports Show That Future Generations Might Belong to Conservatives
Part III (21:52 – 27:05)
Is a Woman’s ‘Fertility Cliff’ of 35 Not Totally True or Totally Not True? – We Need to Pay Close Attention to How Language Works
- Does the ‘Fertility Cliff’ Really Hit at 35? by The New York Times (Dani Blum)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | Very big case argued yesterday before the Supreme Court of the United States, |
| 0:17.0 | a case in which there is so much at stake, and especially for Christians, |
| 0:22.3 | and frankly, for conservative organizations, or for that matter, just about any nonprofit |
| 0:27.3 | organization that might be on the wrong side of any state attorney general. Okay, so here's what |
| 0:32.4 | happened. Here's why the case appeared yesterday at the Supreme Court. It is because back in November of 2023, |
| 0:39.9 | New Jersey's Attorney General, Matthew Plotkin, issued a hostile subpoena against an organization |
| 0:46.8 | known as the First Choice Women's Resource Center. The best way to put that is it is a pro-life |
| 0:51.0 | pregnancy center. And we understand what's at stake here. In the subpoena |
| 0:56.2 | issued by the Attorney General, there was the demand that First Choice would give the court |
| 1:01.9 | and give the prosecutor, in this case the Attorney General, 10 years worth of documents, |
| 1:06.6 | including its own statements on abortion pill reversal, information it provided to clients and donors, |
| 1:12.0 | documents identifying personnel, |
| 1:13.8 | copies of every first choice solicitation and advertisement, |
| 1:16.8 | and information related to outside organizations |
| 1:19.3 | that first choice works with. |
| 1:22.4 | There was also a demand for information related to donors. |
| 1:25.4 | So you look at all of this and you recognize |
| 1:27.4 | this is |
| 1:28.2 | really big. This is a horrible precedent. Here you have a state attorney general issuing a subpoena |
| 1:34.7 | and requesting, indeed it's a subpoena. So it's not a request. It is a demand, a legally binding |
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