Wednesday, February 16, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 07:24)
A Drama With Life and Death Hanging in the Balance: Vermont Pushes to Become First State to Present Constitutional Amendment Establishing Abortion RightsVermont Moves Forward on Becoming First State to Guarantee the Right to Abortion in Its Constitution by Washington Post (Caroline Kitchener)Part II (07:24 - 08:53)
Culture of Death Comes with an Industry: California Declares Itself Sanctuary State for Abortion with Roe v. Wade in the CrosshairsPart III (08:53 - 18:04)
The Consequence of Creation Unraveled by Human Sin: China Faces Catastrophic Birth Rate and All of a Sudden Wants to Limit AbortionChina Tries to Dial Back Its High Abortion Rate by Wall Street Journal (Liyan Qi)Part IV (18:04 - 26:24)
Once Information Exists, It Will Be Used: The Surveillance State Is Rising, and the Threats Are Real IRS Retreats From Facial Recognition to Verify Taxpayers’ Identities by Wall Street Journal (Richard Rubin and Laura Saunders)Where a Thousand Digital Eyes Keep Watch Over the Elderly by New York Times (Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno)Texas Sues Meta Over Facebook’s Facial-Recognition Practices by Wall Street Journal (John D. McKinnon)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 16, 2022. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.0 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | We all know that the abortion issue is squarely before the United States Supreme Court again. |
| 0:19.5 | As in the Rovi Wade decision, 1973, as in the Casey decision 1992 the Dobbs decision as it will be known in the year |
| 0:28.2 | 2022 will be momentous pro-life Americans for the first time and a long time have the very real hope |
| 0:35.4 | that we will see a reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision. But there are |
| 0:39.9 | reminders of where that would then put us as a nation. |
| 0:43.8 | It doesn't mean that abortion would be made illegal coast to coast. |
| 0:47.9 | It means that the question would be returned to the situation before Roe v. Wade, which means the issue would be returned to the |
| 0:54.7 | states and that means that we would go from one major battle over pro-life issues at |
| 1:01.0 | the national level with 50 different arenas thereafter to 50 |
| 1:05.4 | different contests in 50 different states. Now that's true but we also have to |
| 1:09.6 | recognize that an incredible number of states are very pro-abortion and we have other |
| 1:14.8 | states that are very pro-life anti-abortion. So there are some states that already |
| 1:19.4 | have trigger laws in effect to outlaw abortion nearly entirely if not comprehensively as soon as |
| 1:26.2 | Roe v. Wade may be reversed. But you have other states on the other side. |
| 1:30.5 | States like New Jersey, Rhode Island, Illinois, states that have been rushing |
| 1:34.8 | to pass the most aggressively pro-abortion legislation imaginable. |
| 1:39.5 | And then that takes us to the state of Vermont, a reminder of the kind of battle we're going to face in the future |
| 1:44.9 | in the defense of unborn human life. |
| 1:47.8 | And this is something that is now going to go before the voters of Vermont. |
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