Monday, May 4, 2026
5/4/202626 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
Part I (00:13 – 10:20)
Appeals Court Blocks Biden Abortion Pill Policy: This Has Massive Implications , and It Reveals the Dividing Lines Over the Issue of Life
- Appeals court limits abortion pill access nationwide by The Washington Post (Rachel Roubein and Praveena Somasundaram)
- Democrats erupt over abortion pill block: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ by The Hill (Steff Danielle Thomas)
Part II (10:20 – 18:07)
Kentucky Judge Raises Definition of “Human Being” in Abortion Ban: Kentucky Court Takes on Issues of Human Dignity and IVF
- Kentucky judge strikes down definition of ‘human being’ in abortion ban by Louisville Public Media (Sylvia Goodman and Joe Sanka)
Part III (18:07 – 25:32)
Did Spirit Airlines Run Out of Spirit? No, the Budget Airline Ran Out of Money, With Big Lessons
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[upbeat music] It's Monday, May 4th, 2026. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Absolutely massive news on the abortion front, several different fronts. Most importantly, we go to New Orleans, Louisiana. We go to the Fifth Circuit, that is the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and that is one of the US Courts of Appeal that's just short of the Supreme Court of the United States. A unanimous three-judge panel found that the Biden administration's policy that allowed for the prescription of the abortion pill mifepristone and its delivery by mail was not valid precisely because the government had failed in its duty to make certain it was adequately protecting women's health by allowing this policy. The Washington Post reported the story this way, quote, "A federal appeal court is temporarily reinstating a requirement that abortion pills be picked up in person instead of sent through the mail, a victory for anti-abortion advocates that one of the drug's manufacturers quickly sought to place on pause." Okay, so we're talking about a big clash here, and it might not sound like that big an issue, but I want to lay the landscape for understanding why it is so big. Number one, let's set the landscape. Roe v. Wade was the US decision, uh, that forced all 50 states to legalize abortion, or you could even say legalized abortion in all 50 states. That was in 1973. And then