It's Wednesday, May 11, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

The biggest news today is the vote that is likely to take place on the floor of the United States

Senate a vote about whether or not to advance a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade.

There is a huge story behind this, and the story has to do with the fact that the Democratic

leadership in the United States Senate, and of course the majority leader is Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York,

that Democratic leadership believes that it is to the party's political advantage

to seek to put every single United States senator on the line on a bill that would basically make

Roe v. Wade the law of the land.

Indeed, when I say basically, it would materially by legislation replace Roe v. Wade as a Supreme Court decision with an act of Congress

that would be tantamount to the very same thing.

Now one of the things we need to look at is the politics of this situation because that's

deeply tied to worldview. a politics of this situation

is that when you're looking at a controversial development like this

both political parties are doing what political parties do.

They are seeking to understand what is to their partisan advantage.

That's not just a Democratic temptation, it's not just a Republican temptation.

As a matter of fact, it is just a matter of political survival.

Political parties only survive by eventually being on the right side of the argument

with at least enough people to win some election somewhere. And as you're looking at the

Democratic Party, what we need to recognize is that that party has now put all the

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