Life Matters

In this episode, Commissioner Johnson discusses the expansion of medical killing via assisted suicide and euthanasia. The Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions of 1973 did not merely authorize human abortions but specifically directed that only physicians should be involved in these killings. That meant that the medical profession was changed from being a profession sworn only to help and care for and to comfort if they could not cure, but never to kill or in any way harm their patients. With the adoption of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the medical profession is dramatically altered and medical killing was legalized in the United States for the first time. The expansion of medical Killing has continued and has now swept around the world as a standard form of medical practice. Brian is joined by Alex Schadenburg, Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Mr. Schadenburg is based in Canada.  The Canadian government is now requiring that anyone involved in comfort care or other forms of pain managemen

In this vital episode, Commissioner Johnston examines how history is being directly attacked and rewritten at this very moment. This practice is the ongoing pattern of progressive, historical revisionism. It also reflects a fundamental principle lost on most of us in our day-to-day lives: what has preceded us has lead to this moment.  A proper understanding of history will empower us to address this moment in which we live. Brian ties this to an understanding of the abortion culture surrounding us, and even more importantly, to what truly happened in the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions. Many Americans and even numerous pro-lifers do not fully understand the impact these decisions, nearly 50 years ago, have had on our present moment and how we are to address it. Brian explains that our misunderstandings of history are not our fault.  Many educational institutions, particularly in the United States, are under the sway of the John Dewey view of education, progressivism, and relativism. In Europe, this ha

I want to stop for a moment and honor a friend of mine and a friend of the California ProLife Council. Now, I know some of our supporters are not Conservatives. I, more than most, understand that the ProLife Movement is very diverse. And that means that some of you may not be Rush Limbaugh fans. If that's you, please bear with me. I believe you need to know that the dominant media’s presentation of who Rush Limbaugh was, is false; very, very false. And if you have been a supporter of the right-to-life for any time, you already know that the dominant media – the drive-by-media - is regularly false and misleading. They most certainly had it in for Rush Limbaugh. Don’t believe them. Rush Limbaugh was a friend of mine.  It’s not that I knew him well, or even hung out with him. But I did work with him on several occasions. He knew me, and we were cordial. We had many friends in common. First you should know that, in many ways he really was a gentle and “harmless fuzzball!” - his common self-description. I first me

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston outlines the incredible power that language has over our thoughts and perceptions. Brian had studied Comparative Linguistics at Sonoma State University and explains a language phenomenon that many of us don’t often think about.  Just as we are unable to comprehend a completely foreign language, there is the related inability to think about or understand ideas for which we have no words. This principle also extends to deeper implications - that the meaning of words themselves can be changed simply by their usage in society. Those who control the tools of communication - major media and academic circles, are given great control over the use of language. They often create new rules and usages.   George Orwell eloquently illustrated the phenomenon in his book 1984. He had written an epilogue explaining how language is used to control the populace in collectivist-socialist cultures. Orwell’s epilogue is widely available and very recommended. It is entitled, “T

In this episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnston explains how much of abortion rhetoric and abortion law is actually based on falsehoods.  Pro-life individuals are aware of the absurd assertion that, ‘there is no human being killed,’ when a baby dies in a human abortion. But those familiar with objective facts and self-evident truths know that this is simply an assertion of ideology, separated from objective science, and biological fact. When looked at objectively and dispassionately, it is strikingly clear that in a human abortion, the life of a unique human being is taken.  The actual nature of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, which together legalized unlimited abortion in the United States, is rarely examined in any depth. Brian‘s upcoming book: The Evil Twins Roe and Doe: How the Supreme Court Unleashed Medical Killing, is a deep dive into the objective facts and clear statements of both cases, which the dominant media culture and even many pro-life individuals refuse to examine.  In this episo

Is this episode of Life Matters Brian interviews National Right to Life President, Carol Tobias. They discuss in depth the dramatic change to the culture of Washington D.C. in the agenda of the Biden/Harris administration. President Biden has made a commitment to undo all of the pro-life gains won by President Donald Trump. But in addition to that, Biden intends to go much further. Up until his decision to run for president, Senator Joe Biden had supported the Hyde amendment which prohibits federal funds from being used for abortion or to promote abortion. Biden’s dramatic decision to flip-flop on this final pro-life issue, places him firmly in the camp of radical abortion advocates. He now supports unlimited advocacy and funding for all abortions.  In addition, the famous Mexico City policy, a policy of the Ronald Reagan era, has now been rescinded by the Biden administration. It is critical to note that the Mexico City policy which deals with the international funding of abortion and his promotion through v

“Roe v. Wade has no foundation in either law or logic; it is on a collision course with itself.”  Edward Lazarus, a former law clerk to Roe's author, Justice Harry Blackmun, who writes: As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible. I say this as someone utterly committed to the right to choose, as someone who believes such a right has grounding elsewhere in the Constitution instead of where Roe placed it, and as someone who loved Roe's author like a grandfather. . . . . What, exactly, is the problem with Roe? The problem, I believe, is that it has little connection to the Constitutional right it purportedly interpreted. A constitutional right to privacy broad enough to include abortion has no meaningful foundation in constitutional text, history, or precedent. ... The proof of Roe's failings comes not from the writings of those unsympathetic to women's rights, but from the decision itself and the friends who have tried to sustain it. Justice Blackmun's op

Commissioner Johnston knows attorneys who are actively involved in the abortion debate and on both sides of the issue. Many assert a mastery and working knowledge of Roe v. Wade’s intricacies. But honest lawyers will not make any such claim. Perhaps what is more frightening, he knows many more commentators and reporters who will ‘explain’ the decision at length.  The problem is, this ‘well-known’ decision cannot possibly be explained. It does not and cannot make sense.  Even liberal legal scholars like Alan Dershowitz,1 and Cass Sunstein,2 deny its ability to stand on its own merits. Progressive Professor Laurence Tribe is clear: "One of the most curious things about Roe is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found."3 Edward Lazarus was a Blackmun law clerk who "loved Roe's author like a grandfather." He wrote: "As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method .... Justice Blackmun's opinion provides essentially no reasoning in s

In this episode of Life Matters Commissioner Johnston explores the real issues hidden deep within Roe versus Wade and Doe versus Bolton, the twin decisions handed down on January 22, 1973. Few people, even many pro-lifers are aware that abortion was legalized and the laws of all of the states overturned not by simply Roe versus Wade but by the twin conjoined decisions of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Roe v. Wade was addressing the abortion laws of Texas. Doe v. Bolton was addressing the abortion laws of Georgia. Brian Johnston pulls from his new book The Evil Twins Roe and Doe:  How the Supreme Court unleashed medical killing. It is scheduled for release on April 4th of this year. Mr. Johnson explains first of all what very few public commentators and the public at large understand. Roe versus Wade is not simply despised by pro-life individuals. It logically is. Roe versus Wade is despised by many of the leaders of the pro abortion movement, not least of which was actually Supreme Court Associate justice Rut

In this year end episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnston reviews the essential purpose of the program and the extraordinary nature of 2020 as a year.   Doctor Anthony Levantino MD, a former abortionist, tells the story of his transformation to a Pro-life advocate.   For the sake of those who seek a year-end tax deduction, Brian outlines some of the many ways that donors can help the California Prolife Council, the principal sponsor of Life Matters.   Many of these various outreaches and opportunities are available directly at www. Californiaprolife.Org

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston examines the implications of a 'changed medical profession' - changed by the Roe and Doe decisions, and what that means in how the government is addressing Covid-19.  CDC Guidelines what is a 'CASE' of Covid-19? Whatever a billing doctor says it is. There need be no confirming laboratory evidence. Once a case of COVID 19 is declared, hospitals and medical officials may now bill their services under the CARES Act. The additional federal funds are applicable to all ongoing 'treatment' of this patient. FROM CDC: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/conditions/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/case-definition/2020/ "Epidemiological reports from the field are demonstrating a growing importance of pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic infections from two lines of evidence: the serial interval of COVID-19 appears to be close to or shorter than its median incubation period and clusters linked to pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic index cases2, 3. CSTE realizes that field invest

In this episode of Life Matters Commissioner Johnston again interviews Chinese expert, Steven Mosher, PhD. Dr. Mosher is one of the world’s leading experts on China and the impact of communism on the Chinese people. He was the first Westerner allowed into rural China after the Communist revolution and in1977 began his work on his doctorate. He speaks two dialects of Chinese which are in fact quite distinct and mutually unintelligible. After exposing the forced abortion policies of the communist Chinese government in 1979, he was expelled from the country and the Chinese government forced Stanford University to delete him from their programs. In earlier episodes, Dr. Mosher describes the nature of the Wuhan laboratory, and the SARS-2 Covid virus which, by all indications, including expert medical testimony, was in fact created at the Wuhan Laboratory for Viral Research. 

In this episode of Life Matters Brian Johnston explains how the Constitution outlines the method for electing presidents (Article II; and the 12th Amendment).  The media culture, and even many Republicans that have not read the 12th amendment, are pressuring the public and the Trump administration into believing that popular acclaim, particularly when enforced by a media society, is our method of election. Brian takes a deep dive into the methods that are being pursued at this moment by the Trump administration, and the guidance of the 12th amendment.  In particular Brian explains the historical thinking of America’s founders, who in fact, were British patriots. The British Patriot Movement was a political movement of the British Parliament that fought for the voice of every nation within the United Kingdom. It was a movement that began in 1725, fifty years before America’s revolution.  In essence, it was a reaction against the bureaucratic manipulations of Sir Robert Walpole, who surreptitiously created a fo

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston interviews Dr. Steven Mosher, world-renowned expert on China and Chinese domestic and foreign policy. This particular episode focuses on the origins of the COVID-19 illness, caused by the SARS-2 coronavirus. It is inescapable that the origins are directly from Wuhan China, even though the Chinese government has asserted that visiting American soldiers had promulgated the virus. What has been debated and covered up has been the precise technical origins. Documented facts and interviews with employees of the Wuhan virus laboratory indicate that this is a man-made virus, and its distribution worldwide is the direct result of communist Chinese political decisions. We conclude the interview with excerpts from an interview by Tucker Carlson with Ling-Ling Won, a virus researcher who worked both in Hong Kong and in Wuhan.

In this episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnston interviews international political expert Dr. Steven Mosher, president of Population Research Institute. They discuss the present dilemma of media organizations proclaiming election returns long before an official tally has been certified. They also discuss a recent phenomenon in this election year, the widespread and broad distribution of unregulated and unaccounted for ballots. This is substantially different from the regular process of absentee voting. In an absentee ballot a registered and legally authorized voter specifically asked for and receives their personal ballot, and returns the same documented and verifiable personal ballot to vote. Without documentation and accountability of ballots coupled with the new widespread “ballot harvesting procedures“, the possibility and temptation of voter fraud is very, very great, because the ability to double-check and determine fraudulent ballots has been removed from the process. Dr. Mosher and Brian discuss the c

Brian Johnston continually reminds us that the battle for the right to life is actually rooted in the battle of ideas. And in this battle of ideas they must be expressed through language, ideas must be embodied by words.  Because of that, there is an ongoing battle over words and their meanings. It is a battle reaching a crescendo, an ongoing battle in which our entire culture is now immersed.  Disinformation is the intentional relaying, retelling and re-emphasis of false information: false facts, false ‘truths’ and principles. We are currently witnessing a concerted attempt at a culture-wide disinformation campaign aimed at abandoning the foundational principles of our laws, culture, and society. Brian examines, in-depth, the recent appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. He examines the actual facts surrounding US Supreme Court appointments and the deliberate disinformation that has not only been inserted into the public debate, but is being re-emphasized and reenforced

In this episode of Life Matters Brian Johnston explores the final weekend leading up to election day, November 3, 2020. Brian gives an overview of the importance of the election itself, why pro-lifers across the political and religious spectrum need to vote, and in particular why they need to vote the entire ballot, including local candidates and school boards. Brian has several guests including Ben Lopez, a long-time, pro-life political activist who is running for Montclair City Council, and Mike Cargile a pro-life individual running for Congressional District 35. This particular episode focuses on the power of local and regional voting, and by way of example, examines San Bernardino county and its communities. But in point of fact, our state of 58 counties has, for the first time, had most of those counties set forward people who are the good candidates all the way down to school board level. Californiaprolife.org publishes these county lists of pro-life candidates.

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston explores our current culture’s fascination with news. But the word, ‘news’ is actually a reference to immediacy and not necessarily actual meaningful substance: that which is ‘new.’  The word, ‘ephemera’ comes to us from Greek and refers to something that is very briefly lived. Many ephemeral insects literally live their lives in the course of a day or two. They then become food for other insects or animals, most famously the flies eaten by many trout and other fish. Our cultural fascination with the news, or ephemeral data, can easily distract us from deeper, more enduring, more significant principles that should be guiding us and helping our understanding of life. Life Matters is dedicated to the latter - exploring and understanding the deep, abiding principles of life and the law, of what really matters regardless of the passing news stories. Election time is an exception to that. Elections are very narrow moments in time.  However the decisions that a

In this episode of Life Matters Brian examines the month-long election drive from October 3 to November 3, 2020. Brian explains the significance of each and every vote, not simply on the national level, but perhaps most importantly on the most local of levels. He explains the “Teaspoon Theory” and the use of the “one question test.” While many excited and passionate pro-life individuals will in fact quickly check the top of their ballots, because of media coverage of the positions of the presidential candidates - they will immediately vote for president. However, after that their eyes were glaze over. Most ballots in California are chock-full of decisions. Because California is a direct democracy state, there are actually 12 specific laws that will be determined by the popular vote. These 12 propositions are very convoluted in the wording and often intentionally written to mislead and exploit an individual’s confusion and emotions. In previous programs Brian and Sheila Green examined the deeper aspects of the

In this episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnston along with California Pro-life’s Vice President Sheila Green, discuss some of the many ballot propositions on the November 2020 ballot in California. First and foremost is Proposition 14 which renews funding for the CIRM, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. In short, the CRM had been established in 2004 via Proposition 71. It received over $6 billion after counting interest and it was all to be dedicated to embryonic stem cell research and other forms of research, which then President Bush had declared unethical. The federal government would not fund such research. So ironically that proposition only funded unethical research! None of the promised benefits occurred. No cures of any kind were found, and many funds were directed to mysterious places, as the CIRM did not, and continues to lack, government oversight. They have now returned to the ballot and are asking for an additional $5.5 billion!  We advise a ‘No’ vote. Proposition 15 changes the