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It's Thursday, August 7, 2025. I'm Albert Mohler and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview....
A woman in India is reported now to be the "world's oldest mom," giving birth to a baby at age 70. Rajo Devi of Alewa, India gave birth to a baby girl last week. She, along with her 72 year-old husband, had been hoping for a baby for a half-century. ...
The moral status of the human embryo now stands as a central question of our times. In fact, it has only been in recent times that we have even known much about the human embryo. Now, with the issues of human embryonic stem cell research, cloning, ...
Britain's Labour-led government has unleashed the hounds of biomedical and cultural revolution in recent days, voting to allow expanded research using and destroying human embryos, the development of animal-human hybrid embryos, the development of "s ...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in big political trouble. His Labor Party suffered a recent humiliation in local elections and he appears to be losing support from within the party's parliamentary ranks. He also faces a host of controversial i ...
Archbishop Rowan Williams, Primate of the Church of England and leader of the Anglican Communion was once a human embryo. So was I. So were you. So also were those who would now reduce human embryos to the status of a commodity to be used and destroy ...
Does the human embryo deserve our full respect and protection? In their recent book, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Robert George and Christopher Tollefsen argue convincingly that it does. Prof. George joins us on today's program about the argume ...
A deaf couple in Britain has sparked a firestorm of controversy by stating their intention to choose a deaf embryo during the IVF process. The case raises serious questions about matters of bioethics and human dignity for today's show. ...
The development of In Vitro Fertilization technologies [IVF] has produced what one key observer has called "a rather unexpected aspect" of the technique -- the destruction of well over a million human embryos in Great Britain alone. As reported in T ...
For some time now ethicists have warned that the development of real animal-human combinations -- known as chimeras -- was nearing on the horizon. Now, according to some reports, the future has arrived. As William Saletan reports in The Washington P ...
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