This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (14:29 - 14:29) ‘The Enlightenment Consigned Religion in America to the Private Realm of the Individual’: The Secular Arguments Banishing Religion from the Public Square

• Should Religion Influence Abortion Policy? by Religion News Service (Jeffrey Salkin)

PART II (20:23 - 20:23) ‘China Harvests Organs from Death-Row Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience’: Wall Street Journal Study Reveals Chinese Surgeons Turned Executioners

• In China, New Evidence That Surgeons Became Executioners by Wall Street Journal (Jacob Lavee and Matthew P. Robertson)

PART III (24:10 - 24:10) Could the Unethical Organ Procurement in China Come to the United States?: That Reality Lies Closer Than What Might Seem Possible to Americans