Wednesday, March 16, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 16 March 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 04:56)
Idaho Follows Texas Model Law: Bans Abortions After Fetal HeartbeatIdaho Is First State to Pass Abortion Ban Based on Texas’ Law by New York Times (Kate Zernike)Part II (04:56 - 10:34)
Defenders of Abortion Hate the Word “Heartbeat” — Because The Word Affirms the Reality of A Human Baby in the WombAbortion Opponents Hear a ‘Heartbeat.’ Most Experts Hear Something Else. by New York Times (Roni Caryn Rubin)Part III (10:34 - 15:18)
When Geography Tells a Worldview Story: Realtors in Idaho Entice Conservatives in California to Move to IdahoRealtors to Conservatives Living in Liberal Areas: Try Idaho by LA Times (Nicholas K. Geranios)Part IV (15:18 - 23:46)
The Theft of Value: The U.S. Faces an Inflation Crisis — And With It, A Moral CrisisIt’s Joe Biden’s Inflation by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 16, 2022. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | Deservedly, there's been so much conversation about the Texas abortion bill that effectively |
| 0:18.5 | has ended abortion at about six weeks of gestation in that state. You're talking about a law that was |
| 0:24.3 | adopted by the Texas legislature signed into law by the governor of the state |
| 0:28.7 | that allows Texas citizens to sue those who are involved in what would now be defined as an |
| 0:35.2 | illegal abortion there. But we are now looking at another state that has joined |
| 0:39.9 | the Texas model. The second state is the state of Idaho which on Monday became |
| 0:44.6 | the very first state to follow in the Texas example. Now its legislation is not |
| 0:49.0 | exactly like the Texas legislation but it is based on the Texas model. Like the Texas |
| 0:54.3 | model it draws a line at fetal cardiac activity. That's going to turn out to be |
| 0:59.3 | crucial to our considerations today. Fetal cardiac activity. |
| 1:04.7 | Now, Christians must understand that we believe in the sanctity and dignity of human life |
| 1:09.2 | not from 20 weeks forward, 15 weeks forward, |
| 1:12.2 | six weeks forward, or even 6 hours forward, but from the very |
| 1:15.8 | moment when fertilization takes place and when human life begins. |
| 1:21.2 | And that is the only biblical and logical position. But at the same time, |
| 1:25.3 | women do not know the moment at which that fertilization takes place and it is a |
| 1:31.2 | matter of sometime later that a pregnancy can be determined and then it is |
| 1:36.0 | post-dated as you think about the period of gestation. But six weeks turns out to be |
| 1:41.3 | absolutely crucial. |
| 1:42.7 | And as the Texas law then and the Idaho law now stipulates, |
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