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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 Ruth Bader-Ginsberg.

Brian refers to the many attorneys who are deeply 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, "I know 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 support of its holding. And in the almost 30 years since Roe's announcement, no one has produced a convincing defense of Roe on its own terms."4

It is only in understanding this problem of Roe that one can see the real significance of its companion decision, Doe v. Bolton. The decisions were linked and released in tandem. In Doe, Justice Blackmun switches themes entirely. He does not focus on stages of pregnancy or the woman. He now focuses on the individual who is about to do the abortion. Doe v Bolton, in many ways, is written for 'the doctor.'

The state's interest in protecting life is specifically downgraded. The Hippocratic tradition of never harming a human life isdismissed. At any time in pregnancy psychological and societal questions could be the determining factor. No physical medical conditions need be present. (Doe, 410 U.S. 191) Blackmun's definition of the 'health' of the mother in gauzy, 'gestalt' concepts, justified a deadly surgical act.

By 'combining it' with the confusing Roe decision, he cleans up what he quietly had admitted is an arbitrary, pregnancy-stages framework.5 In Doe he cuts through the fog. He makes the physician's opinion the arbiter of action.

Known feminist and abortion-advocate, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has openly faulted the Court's approach for actually being, "about a doctor's freedom to practice his profession as he thinks best.... It wasn't woman-centered. It was physician-centered."6 It is this then, that is the real overarching issue in these decisions: legally-authorized, medical killing.

Pregnancy and abortion were confusedly and ham-handedly dealt with in Roe. But what is crisply and incisively granted to physicians in Doe is the right to use their profession to deadly effect and as they personally saw fit.

The quietly implemented, largely unexamined Doe decision is responsible for the implementation of America's abortion practices. Three thousand years of ethical guidance had protected the physician, vulnerable patients, and civilized society from the quiet, easy way out: simply kill the human being in question. The temptation to cover mistakes; save money; accommodate coercion; reduce workload on overworked medical staff; abet antsy heirs; cease careful pain management by simply ceasing the life; diminish populations of 'imperfect' dependent individuals; all of these utilitarian motives are easily implemented – and quietly so - once there is no external rule or Oath to never use medicine to kill.

The Oath had served as the anchoring premise not only for medical doctors, but for society's view of 'unimportant' human lives entrusted to them.

We are now living with the ever-expanding implications of this casual and quiet dismissal of three millennia of medical ethics. As Justice Ginsburg ironically points out, this new, physician's 'right to choose' is actually the only definitive, conclusive aspect of the deadly, twin decisions, Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton.

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 investigations will involve evaluations of persons with no symptoms and these individuals will need to be counted as cases.

Clinical Criteria

At least two of the following symptoms: fever (measured or subjective), chills, rigors, myalgia, headache, sore throat, new olfactory and taste disorder(s)

OR

At least one of the following symptoms: cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing"

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The CDC goes on to state that upon submission, no further personal details will be collected ('in the interest of privacy'). This makes follow-up and confirmation virtually impossible.

Why now these many "Deaths" from Covid?

Please view this 40 second statement of policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHp1GdOD4k

DR. Birx is clear, even if the death is clearly because of a very separate and demonstrable, existing morbidity, if it can in ANY WAY be asserted that Covid is involved (You have just read that the assertion that Covid is present, without any objective confirming facts, is now a case of Covid). Therefore, any death you, as a recipient of federal medical funds, wish to ascribe to COVID is now incontrovertibly death from COVID in the eyes of the government. All evidence otherwise, as a billing medico, you are free to ignore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHp1GdOD4k

The John Hopkins University newsletter published a startling confirming article, that the reportage of death numbers spiking does not make mathematical sense. The powers that be had the article removed, but certain conscientious outlets preserved copies.

https://wbckfm.com/johns-hopkins-university-researcher-finds-death-rate-before-and-after-covid-the-same/

Johnston concludes, there is little doubt that COVID-19 is extremely deadly for those with lowered immune systems, particularly the elderly. But a deliberative analysis would conclude that instead of quarantining all those who do not have the illness (the opposite of what an actual quarantine is) WE should instead be focusing on protective, prophylactic measures for the most vulnerable. Wherever that did not happen, many elderly and vulnerable died.

If these things are true, perhaps most ominously, it appears that, as with euthanasia, the illness appears to be affecting "those who would soon die anyway." The illness appears to be a utilitarian tool that simultaneously strikes great fear into the populace at large and 'eliminates' the burdensome. It enables both the herding of the populace and the 'culling of the herd'.

Many tyrannical forms of government have approached the human person as an object to be herded. Communism and other forms of despotism continue to do so. But that is the opposite of the freedom that the USA is built on, the foundational premise that humans are more than mere animals, they are not to be 'herded.' They are 'endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,' the first of which is the right to life.

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 form of deep state within the parliament and engineered vast personal power by arrogating to himself vast powers under his newly created office of Prime Minister. In so doing, he cornered the power of the London newspapers and shared power only with English friends, graduates of Oxford in Cambridge, "the insiders".

Patriot members of parliament were comprised of representatives of the Midlands, Wales, Scotland and Ireland who saw the need for the British Empire to be representative. The patriot movement was very popular in British colonies as well, particularly in North America.

Members of parliament such as Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, joined with William Pitt the elder to fight and suppress the deep state which Walpole was creating in the heart of London.

Pitt, in 1850, actually gained control briefly and true to his movement lifted the Intolerable Acts, and the Stamp Act which had oppressed the colonies, whom he felt had every right to elect their own representatives and have their own courts. Had Pitt remained Prime Minister most historians agree there would never have been an American Revolution.

But the British patriots were removed from power in 1856, and their respect for local authority and representative government was quickly dismissed by the new Tory government and the odious taxes were again resumed. The patriot movement in the colonies however continued to blossom, creating the Constitution and revolution we now know.

Because of this parliamentary concern of the British patriots that local authority be recognized, the American Constitution insured the power of the states, not only in electing the U.S. Senate by legislatures, and also electing the U.S. president by state legislatures, via the electoral college.

The election of 2020 should have followed the model outlined in the Constitution which cedes any failure of the electoral college to reach a consensus, directly to the House in Congress, specifically to vote by state delegation. Again the states, not the easily manipulated populous, elect our President under the Constitution.

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 current situation, and aspects of the Covid crisis that have contributed to it. Dr. Mosher will return to discuss the nature of Covid, its mysterious origins in China, and what we should do about that in our next program.

Brian also introduces a new sponsor for Life Matters, Winged Spur Coffee. Winged Spur was founded by returned missionaries who discovered some extraordinary single-origin coffees in their travels. The company now roasts these exotic coffees on demand and fly them directly to your home on request - the richest and freshest coffees available.

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 as somehow true.

Those who have been given the fiduciary trust to inform the public, not only news outlets and social media providers (who declare they offer a public service to the community of mutual communications (perhaps akin to the telephone system), but now these same public utilities of communications closely monitor and control what is said on this public communication system, social media.

Most evident is the disinformation and redefinition of terms regarding language and knowledge which is so common now in the academic community. The academic community and other factual information gathering agencies that have historically been focused on objective facts, were politically disinterested and moored in avoiding specific ideological battles.

Alarmingly, even the most historically pristine outlet of communication, the dictionary, and other educational tools, are currently involved in this contorted effort to silence dissenting thought. We are seeing outright disinformation and intentional manipulation of the words and subsequent thoughts in which the public engages.

Nowhere is that clearer than the recent alacrity with which the English language itself was intentionally assaulted with great vigor and animus.

During the Amy Coney Barrett Senate Judiciary hearings, Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii declared that Mrs. Barrett was a bigot and an unworthy justice due to her use of the term, "sexual preference" in describing homosexuals. She asserted this as a disqualifying matter of her nomination.

Mrs. Barrett responded that she was sorry as she was completely unaware that the use of this term was somehow judgmental or bigoted. Yet Mrs. Barrett reflected the cultural norm, such that even pro-homosexual and gay publications had used the term earlier in the month. It was not used as a prejudicial or slanderous term, but a self-described term.

The very night of Senator Hirono's accusation, the online version of the Miriam-Webster dictionary changed the meaning of the term "sexual preference," and delineated that it was a bigoted and prejudice slander of LBGTQ individuals. The dictionary was changed seemingly in concert with Sen. Hirono's political attack!

The English language reflected in the Miriam-Webster dictionary itself was intentionally altered and declared outdated and bigoted - with the click of a mouse.

A widely respected and heretofore accurate, politically disinterested compiler of English usage was intentionally and immediately used for the creation of political newspeak. George Orwell's description of a dystopic cultures language patterns was employed before the eyes of the world.

Disinformation - intentional confusion, emotional punishment, slander and cultural banishment have become extremely common tools of the pro-death, anti-life culture which seeks to destroy our foundational ways of even thinking and reasoning.

Brian reminds us that the war of ideas is very real and one of the principle tools is to create linguistic confusion, to twist the meaning of words and force cultural assent to these newly twisted terms.

Etymologically speaking, the word "war" is an English word derived from Indo-European languages and specifically German Gothic. The word "war" in Gothic-German literally means "confusion."

It is vitally important that advocates for life and objective truth understand this tool of language and confusion in this war of ideas.

The Goths themselves were the only nation to have defeated the Roman empire in battle. They used confusion. That is their meaning of "war."

The Roman empire and its impact on civilization is built on order and principles. This was reflected in the Roman legionaries method of war - working as a cohesive unit marching in phalanxes, locking shields and repelling all comers.

This could not be used in the forest of Germany and specifically at the battle of the Teutoburg forest in 9AD. Three legions of Roman soldiers were completely destroyed as the Goth warriors used the confusion of forest warfare and "concerted disorder" to overwhelm those in the habit of thinking and operating logically and in an orderly fashion. This loss of so many Roman legions was the starting point of Rome's decline as an imperial power although the implications were to be felt over centuries.

Confusion and disordered thinking, lack of clarity in the use of words and language, and charged emotional exchanges are the methods regularly used by those who seek to overcome objective facts and self-evident truths. In the right to live is the first and foundational premise of the self-evident truths.

It must be fought for and defended in this battle of ideas.

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 are made have great long-term impact. There are much more enduring principles and facts that must be brought to bear in those brief days and moments surrounding an election.

Failure to recognize the deeper and more abiding principles is failure to understand the real meaning of elections in a free society.

Brian introduces a listener from Temecula, California who has sent greetings: Mike Garcia (not the CA congressional candidate Mike Garcia). Mr. Garcia comments particularly on the importance, and his enjoyment of, understanding these deeper principles on which Life Matters regularly focuses and equips the listener to address.

Sheila Green, Attorney and Central California Vice President of California Prolife, again joins the program and discusses, in depth, the real significance of Proposition 14 which is being sold to the public as a quick and easy cure-all for any number of serious illnesses. Their assertions are false and the multiple billion dollars that have been wasted have been without any accountability.

Brian closes the latter part of the program by mentioning key congressional races and assembly races in California.

Finally, as this protracted election comes to a close, the integrity of the vote is vitally important. California Prolife Council endorses the work of the Election Integrity Project and Brian mentions how individuals can volunteer to help ensure an honest and honorable vote counting system.