Life Matters

Science is meant to be a tool, a tool of learning, just like a butchers knife or a scalpel is simply a tool, the moral judgment of those who use the tool is critical. It can be used for good or it can be used for great evil. In 1816 a young girl Mary Shelley wrote an incredible marvel describing the combination of the industrial revolution with medical science and the danger of it’s lacking a moral compass. Air Date: N/A

Brian Johnston and his special guest, Lawrence Lehr from Sonoma County ProLife, discuss how you can get involved and make a difference in the Battle of Ideas with the help of volunteer programs and the unifying ideals of the National Right to Life Committee. Brian answers a listener's question on whether or not assisted suicide is actually an act of compassion for the dying or an emotional escape for the living. Air Date: 3-18-17

An article in the British newspaper the Telegraph on March 2nd, 2017, declares that artificial human life could soon be grown from scratch in the laboratory after scientists successfully created a mammal embryo using only stem cells growing embryos which supposedly help researchers to study the fairly early stages of human life but also prove controversial and raise ethical questions about what constitutes human life? Air Date: N/A

Brian Johnston shares what the House of Lords decided September 11th, 2015, on the matter of assisted suicide through the use of a a 750 page report that can be found at http://www.patientsrightscouncil.org. Air Date: N/A

Few people realize how much government support, underwriting, and protection the abortion industry receives in the state of California. Brian Johnston and his special guest, Albin Rhomberg, discuss the actual issues of government sponsorship of the abortion industry, Donald Trump's commitment to stopping federal funding of Planned Parenthood, and the failure for many private individuals to recognize that abortion is now a government sponsored program coming from your local tax dollars. We need to trump government financing of the abortion industry now! Air Date: 3-11-17

Brian Johnston reads a hospice story ripped from today’s headlines in the Dallas News, March 2, 2017, "…The owner of the Texas hospice company allegedly encourage employees to overdose patients for monetary gain is among sixteen individuals charged…in a sixty million dollar medicare fraud scheme." What should truly alarm you is that they're indicted for taking money from the government and not for intentionally killing patients. Air Date: N/A

Is suicide infectious? Suicide contagion has been documented throughout history the earliest historians of Western civilization Plutarch and Herodotus recorded several examples of suicide cults in addition to suicide epidemics. Special guest interview with Dr. Mark Hoffman. Air Date: 3-4-17

The abortion industry is financed by the government on many levels federal, state, county and sometimes municipal. But there is no other 'choice' industry that enjoys such government sponsorship. You can choose any car you want but the government doesn't have to buy it for you. Air Date: N/A

In the appendix to his book 1984, George Orwell explains how the minds of citizens in that dystopian world were controlled, it was through the use of language known as ‘Newspeak.’ In 2017 the British Medical Association instructed all personnel to change their use of language in a booklet titled, “A Guide To Effective Communication- Inclusive Language In The Workplace.” Physicians were specifically guided to never call a pregnant woman a mother. Sadly, unless regular people fight for the use of language and self evident facts, the Right To Life will be stripped away, if not by law, then through the dishonest manipulation of ideas via language. Air Date: N/A

Dispelling the myth that the seniors in society are a burden. There is a wave of an aging population now crashing down upon us. What we decide to do about it will reveal what we truly value and determine if we are still a society that protects vulnerable human lives and their Right To Life. Air Date: 2-25-17

What is the purpose of the law? To do everything for you? To take care of all your needs? Or are there clear, essential qualities to the law and nature of government. According to America's Founders, the first and foremost is the protection of lives. And the pro-life movement believes exactly that. Air Date: N/A

The laws on assisted suicide only really change one thing. Now assistants and those who encourage suicide will no longer be scrutinized or held accountable. Air Date: 2-18-17

Brian Johnston speaks of the film, Judgement At Nuremberg (1961) and how it relates to the Battle of Ideas going on in today's world. Air Date: N/A

You are in a Battle of Ideas. It will be getting more intense and you will be immersed in it. How you decide to deal with those ideas will determine if you are successful and if the right ideas are successful. Lincoln fought in the realm of ideas and the issue of slavery is extremely parallel to the abortion issue. Lincoln is also our example for how we must deal with the Supreme Court's decision to deny legal rights, or the 'Right To Life' to vulnerable human beings. Abortion and slavery very parallel in California. The child in the womb has no rights. The Several states even pays for the abortion and the abortion industry. Air Date: 2-11-2017

If an individual embraces 'Relativism', (the idea that truth is 'changeable' at different times and different places), then there are no objective facts, no definitive truths on which to agree. Air Date: N/A

Ideas have consequences. The need for clear and concise ideas is important when those ideas become laws. Judge Neil Gorsuch understands the basic idea of civilization, protection of the vulnerable. Air Date: N/A

"We hold these truths to be self-evident..." America's values and principles are built on objective facts, self-evident truths, not opinion or feelings. If an individual embraces 'relativism', (the idea that truth is 'changeable' at different times and different places), then there are no objective facts, no definitive truths on which to agree. If relativism is embraced as valid, there then would be no such thing as a definitive 'Right To Life' or any definitive truth or facts. Air Date: 2-04-2017

As the crowds begin to peacefully gather January 27th, 2017, Brian Johnston speaks on the reason why we March For Life in Washington D.C. every year since 1973. Air Date: N/A

Ideas have consequences. In 2016 the Oxford English Dictionary declared 'post-truth' to be the word of the year. It describes a situation where emotions are superior to facts in any given situation. In the Battle of Ideas, lives are truly at stake. Should emotions trump facts when it means taking human lives? Air Date: N/A

English Common Law protected children after 'quickening' because that was the most advanced and confirmable science. With the advancement in scientific medicine conception was confirmed as the start of human life when mammalian conception was witnessed under the modern microscope in 1836. The British Common Law followed in protecting children from the time of conception. American Dr. Horatio R. Storer was studying in Edinburgh and came back to encourage each of the United States to now respect those human lives, even as they now had freed and protected slaves. From 1860 to 1880 he campaigned until all states protected that child, his 'second patient.' Dr. Storer is also known as the Father of Gynecology. Air Date: 1-28-2017