Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:26)
Pro-Abortion California May Enshrine Abortion in Its Constitution in November: It’s a Sign of Abortion Extremism in Nation’s Most Populous StateEndorsement: Yes on Prop 1. Even in Progressive California, Abortion Rights Need Constitutional Protection by LA Times (The Editorial Board)Part II (12:26 - 18:18)
‘You Give A Lot of Your Prime Reproductive Years to Being the Best Athlete in the Building’: Women’s Sports Collide with Reproductive RealityAs Women Athletes Compete Later into their Lives, Family Planning and Fertility Take Center Stage by USA Today (Lindsey Schnell)Part III (18:18 - 24:25)
‘If You Played at a Top 10 University, You Didn't Have Babies’: USA Today Contends Abortion is Key to Women’s Success in Collegiate Sports — But What’s Really Going On Here?Uncertainty for College Women’s Coaches, Athletic Departments after Roe v. Wade’s Reversal by USA Today (Nancy Armour, Lindsay Schnell, and Steve Berkowitz)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, September 7, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.9 | The Dobbs decision handed down by the Supreme Court in late June, that decision that reversed |
| 0:19.1 | the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 has revealed some of the basic moral fault lines in this country in a way |
| 0:25.8 | that simply couldn't have been detected before. |
| 0:28.8 | There are arguments that are being made now that were not being made just a matter of months ago. Now those of us |
| 0:34.8 | who have been in the fight for unborn human life for the last several decades |
| 0:38.6 | understand that the basic moral contours of the question of abortion remain absolutely the same and |
| 0:44.8 | that's been true going all the way back to the book of Genesis but as you think about |
| 0:49.4 | modern technology and some modern political and sociological developments, well there are some big game |
| 0:54.9 | changers and some of them are incredibly revealing. |
| 0:58.1 | First I want us to go to the state of California. |
| 1:00.0 | Now as we go to California I want us to recognize something. |
| 1:03.2 | California is one of the most pro-abortion pieces of real estate on the entire surface of |
| 1:08.8 | planet Earth. |
| 1:09.8 | If you are looking for some of the most liberal abortion laws, the most abortion-friendly |
| 1:15.2 | legal context, you look to the state of California, which by statute recognizes what it declares |
| 1:21.6 | to be a woman's right to an abortion, you also have a state government |
| 1:25.4 | that effectively pays for abortion under many if not most circumstances. |
| 1:30.4 | And so as you're looking at the situation of abortion there in California, it's actually hard to imagine how a law could be any more progressive or any more pro-abortion. |
| 1:41.0 | There are certain issues related to late-term abortion and other |
| 1:44.4 | complexities that might become an issue but the big fact is California is one of |
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