Life Matters

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston interviews Sheila Green, Esq., Central Vice President of the California ProLife Council, and Bob Cièlnicky, a long time life activist and volunteer and formerly Southern Vice President for the California ProLife Council.

Relatively few pro-life individuals understand the deep significance of local elections. Yet, many abortion businesses receive direct authority and government funds from not only the federal and state governments, but counties and cities. Often, permission to operate within school districts is decided directly by the local districts themselves.

In December 2019, the Los Angeles County Board of Education announced it was allowing Planned Parenthood to directly insert 50 school-based clinics into Los Angeles county high schools. The permission and funding for this third-party access to California school children was determined solely by the vote and authority of the local school board.

If Pro-life individuals have understood the importance of local elections and local civics they are in a position to stop this incredible intrusion and access to children in school. Failure to understand or act on these opportunities is failure to protect your own community.

Sheila, Bob and Brian explain the methods employed to assess the stances of candidates on the local level, how to further educate those who don't understand the local issues, and how to publish a pro-life Voter Guide to be used in those election cycles that elect local candidates.

In election year 2020, county school boards and county supervisors, as well as several other lower-level offices are elected. The opportunity to change them won't come for another four years. If pro-lifers are awakened and take action for this early primary (votes to be tallied March 3), there is a good chance at preventing further expansion of the abortion industry into the schools and throughout the state through local funding and support by abortion supporting candidates.

The tools to accomplish this are offered by the California Prolife Council and are available at www.californiaproife.org\2020-questionnaires.

This podcast program is a step-by-step guide for how local pro-life individuals can help protect their community. Further guidance can be found by calling 800-924-2490.

In this episode of Life Matters Commissioner Johnston (former Commissioner an Aging for California) interviews Sheila Green, J.D., Central California Vice President of the California ProLife Council and Right To Life Federation.

Attorney Green explains the actual state of abortion law in California, a situation that both the media as well as the abortion industry and the government do not wish to have publicly discussed. Citing government statute, and the Medi-Cal handbook for abortion providers, Ms. Green explains that abortion in California is unregulated. It is legal through all nine months of pregnancy, and there is no requirement for medically indicated reasons, even in late-term. It is any abortion at any time, for any reason, or for no reason in particular. All abortions in California are available for payment by the California tax-payer.

Ms. Green also explains that there are existing statutes that would require a child born in the course of an abortion to be protected, but given the fact that all other abortion regulations have been suspended, there is no enforcement vehicle or inspectors to ensure that infant's life is protected. There are no penalties associated with violation, and without a system of accountability, the law is meaningless. (California Health and Safety Code, 123435) While unenforced, it does reflect the sentiment of most Americans.

In this episode, Commissioner Johnston discusses that aspect of abortion which the abortion industry seeks to hide, the media rarely discusses, and yet, is the most shocking and appalling aspect of abortion.

It is an area on which the majority of Americans agree - killing a child, big enough to hold in your arms, is killing a vulnerable human baby. Most Americans – even those who self-identify as pro-choice – oppose this practice. Yet, this is exactly what is allowed under Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.

Included is a presentation by Gianna Jessie, who was born in 1977 during a saline abortion. Her comments are riveting and incontrovertible: our nation is legally killing human babies who are wanted. Gianna was adopted and there are 2 million couples hoping for and awaiting adoption each year.

Dr. Patrick Marmion OB/GYN joins Commissioner Johnston for a second interview regarding the dramatic change in obstetrics, and the oppressive nature of current medical training. Dr. Marmion considers the current profession of obstetrics to be practicing in a police-state of pro abortion medicine, forcing obstetricians to participate in abortion during training in order to move ahead in their profession.

The nature of medicine has been dramatically impacted by Roe v. Wade as the Hippocratic Oath's principle of never harming a patient has been completely removed, and physicians have become legalized killers. This has impacted not merely obstetrics, but also how other vulnerable patients can now be treated – by killing.

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston conducts an extensive interview with Dr. Pat Marmion, OB/GYN. Dr. Marmion, who has been involved as a pro-life physician for almost 40 years, explains the real facts regarding the routine killing of older children, children who could survive outside the womb, children big enough to hold in your arms.

Dr. Marmion describes the Weisberg incident of 1982, when a shipping container left in a storage facility in Los Angeles was found to contain over 16,000 young, aborted baby corpses. The media did cover that incident at the time, but most recently when an abortionist was found to be storing thousands of aborted fetuses at his home, the major media employed a media blackout. It was not to be made known.

The issue for our culture is quite simple - when your fellow citizens see human babies, they do not want those babies wantonly killed. If the debate is only words, semantics and numbers, your neighbors' attention span is brief. The media and the abortion movement want no discussion of these living, unique and incredible human beings. The job for the pro-life movement is to show the facts of these lives.

In this amazing interview, Dr. Marmion explains his experiences with the medical industry and the new, dramatic assault on both obstetrics and gynecology, in the creation of yet another specialty, the euphemistically titled, "complex family planning".

'Complex family planning' trains the physician to kill older children in the womb through various methods of dismemberment, skull crushing, and in some cases, doing so in a method to preserve valuable human organs - but this is certainly not, "family planning".

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The State of California will pay for any abortion, at any time, regardless of the gestational age of the child. There need be no medically indicated reason for the killing of that child. Do your friends know that that's the law? Do your neighbors understand that they're paying for unlimited abortion in California? Do they really know what Roe versus Wade and Doe versus Bolton has done to the law and to the practice of medicine?

In this edition of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston explores the real facts of how late abortions are being performed. He points out the inescapable fact that the media and the abortion lobby minimizes the humanity of the child, and will rarely, if ever, use any human terms in referring to the baby. In a callous and dismissive way they intentionally want to make the debate about tangents: "When does life begin?" etc. but that, as he points out, has nothing to do with when the killing begins and when it is authorized. It is as much a tangent as killing any person is not a debate about when that person's life began.

Brian has an extensive interview with Johanna Hyatt, who, while 23 weeks pregnant, presented herself to a number of late term abortionists and clearly stated that there was nothing physically wrong with her nor was there anything wrong with the child.

There were many other expectant mothers in each of the waiting rooms. No one at these abortion clinics attempted to dissuade her from killing that large a child, and even when she was public about there being no medically indicated reason.

The public debate will not change until these facts are front and center in the minds of actual pro-life individuals. It is our job to defend these human lives and to make sure that the language and intellectual arguments avoid the dishonesty of minimizing the age which abortions are done and the value of each and every unique human life killed.

In 1973, the Roe versus Wade decision overturned the protective laws of all fifty states. These laws respected the humanity of a child in the womb and had been established immediately following the Civil War. That War established that black human beings who were innocent could not be owned or killed at will. Medical science and the medical profession, through the American Medical Association and other advocates, had insisted after the Civil War, that now a vulnerable and innocent human being in the womb also needed the protection of the law.

Roe versus Wade in 1973 ignored the humanity of the child and gives this vulnerable human being absolutely no protection whatsoever throughout the United States. Many people have come to disagree and bemoan this legal situation. But being pro-life is much more than merely a feeling or opinion about that decision. The essential question for the pro-life movement is, "What shall we do now?"

While there are many projects and social work proposals that are pursued, failure to address the reality that the law has legalized and is promoting the killing of these children, is failure to recognize what the ongoing battle truly is.

When Roe v. Wade is overturned it will be up to local citizens to elect life-respecting representatives who will enact life-protecting laws.

Many religious groups are either ignorant of, afraid of, or perhaps worse, feel it to be unspiritual to be involved in the civic process of their community. But those who are committed to protect innocent lives understand the need to organize locally with fellow pro-lifers of diverse backgrounds. This is what a local Right To Life chapter does.

Lawrence Lehr, of Sonoma County Pro Life joins us in this episode of Life Matters. He explains how local individuals who consider themselves pro-life have a duty, responsibility and the very easy ability to impact their community.

Training local pro-life speakers, focusing on the objective scientific and legal facts regarding these departures from Western Civilization; and making known these principles to the community help prevent this from being seen as merely a religious opinion, but instead recognized for what it is: the number one civil rights issue of our time.

When local communities become pro-life, entire states become pro life, and it is the states that will once again, with the overturn of Roe v. Wade, be free to protect the vulnerable innocent. That the law should protect innocent lives is the very basis of our civilization and the very heart of our legal system. Working for that change is the entire purpose of the right to life movement.

In this episode, Brian explores some interviews with abortion advocates in which they admit that the use of language is what scares them the most.

Drawing from a podcast interview from VICE media, abortion advocates publicly admit that the words "prolife" and "Right to Life" are themselves deeply harmful to the "pro-choice" cause. Even the phrase "right to choose" has become less powerful in their vocabulary. They are now adjusting to use "reproductive liberty." But is an abortion, in anyway, reproductive? Isn't it in fact the exact opposite of reproduction? The need for abortion advocates to deceive and misrepresent their true goals can only be fulfilled through their manipulation of language.

Commissioner Johnston, whose undergraduate degree was in Comparative Linguistics, explores the power of language and the need for all of us to listen carefully, and weigh the meaning of the words that are being used in this very important battle, a battle that indeed will either cost or save lives.

Because of the strong emotions that are associated with the abortion issue it is tempting to overlook how we got here and why. There are so many abortions daily.

Instead of working to end this tragic chapter in American history: government sponsorship and protection of the entire abortion industry, we might simply get caught up in 'cleaning up' after the ongoing human tragedy. It is very easy to become obsessed only with helping the young mothers and their children whenever an abortion is being considered. Secondarily, when a young mother succumbs to emotional or social pressure with the tragic mistake of having an abortion, the emotional and psychological counseling necessary can consume the resources of many.

Dr. Mildred Jefferson, M.D., a former president of the National Right Life Committee, and the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, put it succinctly: "The crisis pregnancy centers of America are the Red Cross in this important battle for life, but the Red Cross never won any battles. And the Red Cross has never won any wars. We must fight for the laws to once again to protect and defend the vulnerable."

Dr. Jefferson nicely summarizes the real challenge that we face when we fail to recognize the battle of ideas - surrender to the laws allows the killing of millions every year. We have a Christian duty to help see to the needs - physical and emotional - of these young mothers and children, but that does not replace the need to engage in this pressing battle for society and culture. We must work in the civic realm to ensure that the laws are not promoting, encouraging, or paying for this killing.

In Western Civilization the law is always the first line of defense for the vulnerable innocent. The law is a teacher and protector. Failure to recognize that it was the suspension of these protective laws that brings this widespread evil is failure to recognize the challenge of our times.

In this episode Commissioner Johnston discusses recent events in the news that involved mass shootings. The popular media, in examining the cause and the issue, neglected to point out a common factor between the two gunmen. While one seemed to be on the "right," and the other on the "left", in reality both in their writings admitted to being environmentally concerned and deeply troubled over the issue of overpopulation. They both expressed a pressing need to lower the population and saw their acts as doing so.

While a handful of outlets did make known these express writings of the killers, the popular media by and large ignored these express statements of motivation and instead focused on other topics.

Troubling in all of this is the fact that the current push in the American educational system imbuing a sense of social justice regarding the environment, global warming, and overpopulation, has created a culture with the not so subtle message: human beings themselves are a problem, and the number of human beings should be reduced. We saw this exact statement asserted by Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in urging Third World abortions to reduce the population.

Brian tells his sad experience of having an acquaintance killed by the Unabomber. Again, the popular media avoided any deep analysis of the Unabomber's manifesto, but those who did bother to look into it saw that it repeated many of the very common environmental assertions and dire warnings from Al Gore's books, all of which have been proven wrong.

Brian, like many other Americans, cares deeply about nature and preserving and protecting the natural resources of our nation, but these sentiments are being twisted by an ideology which sees human beings themselves as mere "creators of carbon dIoxide and enemies of the earth".

Such an ideology must be exposed and repudiated for the great evil that it can inspire through its malice towards fellow human beings, particularly the most vulnerable.

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston explains exactly what happened in the closing days of the California state legislative session of 2019.

Brian reminds listeners that if they really care about human life and consider themselves to be pro-life they need to take the time to look into how laws are made because it is the laws that are designed to protect innocent lives. Once Roe v. Wade is overturned each of the states will have an opportunity to again protect innocent lives.

Senate Bill 24, which authorizes the distribution of the chemical abortifacient RU 486 in all state university and state college campuses, was passed in the wee hours of the final evening of the session.

Brian reminds us that the old saying "if anyone likes either sausages or laws they should never watch either one being made." What this means is laws are often made in a very uncomely, inappropriate manner and it is up to us to watch and hold accountable, lawmakers who make this mess.

Brian also reminds us that we should not be disappointed and simply walk away or use the empty phrases "that you can't legislate morality," because laws are in fact the morality of a nation, and those nations will be judged for their laws and morals. Will they protect the vulnerable innocent or will they ipenly kill innocent human lives?

Every election allows us, as citizens, to have a voice in the process of lawmaking but also in the local community - especially down to the school board level where some of those most important community decisions are made.