Life Matters

Words and politics - how can you discern?

Brian takes a deep dive into the actual principles at stake in the coming election by examining how they are always at stake in ALL elections. If you understand that you are better prepared to think this election and all elections through.

California geography makes California of great importance. Since at least the 1950's, the California Governorship has impacted the whole country. Governor Earl Warren went on to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. But even if they don't go on to President, as Ronald Reagan did, the Governor of this state plays a huge part of influencing the nation.

So geography matters. If you move to Minnesota in the summer, don't complain about the harsh storms of the winter, if you don't understand your surroundings, your geography.

California is subject to harsh political storms because of its huge importance. Prepare to face the political storms and understand them. Don't just curse the 'weather you don't understand.' Rise above it. Prepare for it. Politics is the battle of ideas.

John Cox is a millionaire outsider who wants to change the culture of California politics and can't be bought (which is the normal way people succeed in politics... they are bought).

In the California primary if the Republican vote is split and the leading Republican is not in the top two, there will be NO Republican on the fall ballot.

Travis Allen is a termed-out Assemblyman (Assembly district is 1/80th of the state). He bought the Tea Party list but is now lying to them to keep them on board his campaign. He found out the hard way that Tea Party folk are very prolife, not just into taxes like him.

He is always asked by them if he is prolife, so Travis proclaims that he is, and that he has always been. But - he had the highest 'avoidance record' of any Republican in the state. He made a point of abstaining on the issue whenever it came to his desk. It was only when he knew he had to change in his last session that he gave a few votes, but not many.

He refuses still to sign the prolife pledge signed by Cox and Trump. He is backed by financial backers that 'buy his support from other groups. California Prolife does not sell its support.

Some swamp powers want to split the vote so there is NO Republican on the fall ballot, or if there is a Republican, they want one that can be bought. It's how that swamp works.

John Cox, like Donald Trump, is a millionaire pro-lifer who wants to change things and can't be bought. Travis Allen uses words to seduce voters but won't make the very specific commitments that some view as controversial - being truly prolife.

Even worse, he is actually draining votes from the lead Republican and may actually keep Republicans off the fall governor ballot.

Once you dig down on the facts - and through the blizzard - the facts speak. And the facts are on the side of life.

Abortion-On-Demand is now routine throughout all of Europe and in most of Western civilization. One of the last holdouts is the nation of Ireland. Under Ireland's 8th Amendment, the laws of that country re-enforce the legal right to life for all vulnerable human beings, particularly those in the womb.

But on May 25th, 2018, a national plebiscite will be held. It is being pushed by all of the political parties that control the Dublin government.

A pro-abortion media and a political climate that favors European progressivism has placed Ireland as one of the final holdouts against the legalized dismissal of human lives.

Ireland is the youngest, most prosperous per capita country in the European Union. It has the lowest death rate and the highest birth rate of that entire greying continent.

Brian Johnston gives background on the laws protecting innocent lives in Ireland and the political efforts to bring those to an end. He includes a special interview with Peadar Tóibín, member of the Irish Dáil, and explains the political dilemma facing the Irish people at this crucial moment in history.

You are living through this very moment in history. The same challenge that is facing the Irish is facing you.

Brian explains how this 'deeper battle' against a life-dismissing, government-centric ideology has been reflected in many poignant 'stories'. Stories are the transmission tools of culture.

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and many others tell of how quiet love of life more accurately carries Western values than obedience to technology. Christianity reminds followers to hold this in mind in upholding secular leaders: "Pray for kings and all who are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence". ( 1 Tim. 2:2) In Tolkien terms, the life of the shire is far preferable to the "progressive", ongoing, technological advances of Mordor. Civilization is cherished and embraced in the quiet shire. It is actually destroyed by "advances" that have no moral compass. Technological advancement is not the same as civilization.

Abortion-On-Demand is now routine throughout all of Europe and in most of Western civilization. One of the last holdouts is the nation of Ireland. Under Ireland's 8th Amendment, the laws of that country re-enforce the legal right to life for all vulnerable human beings, particularly those in the womb.

But on May 25th, 2018, a national plebiscite will be held. It is being pushed by all of the political parties that control the Dublin government.

A pro-abortion media and a political climate that favors European progressivism has placed Ireland as one of the final holdouts against the legalized dismissal of human lives.

Ireland is the youngest, most prosperous per capita country in the European Union. It has the lowest death rate and the highest birth rate of that entire greying continent.

Brian Johnston gives background on the laws protecting innocent lives in Ireland and the political efforts to bring those to an end. He includes a special interview with Peadar Tóibín, member of the Irish Dáil, and explains the political dilemma facing the Irish people at this crucial moment in history.

You are living through this very moment in history. The same challenge that is facing the Irish is facing you.

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The right to life isn't just about the tragedy of abortion, which needs to come to an end. It's about restoring the right to life for all individuals who are vulnerable.

Today we talk again with Wayne Cockfield. He is the Vice President for Medical Ethics for the National Right to Life Committee. We will discuss how medical ethics is an essential part of the right to life and also Wayne's experience in receiving ethical care, but also his being at risk of receiving unethical care for life circumstances that left him very vulnerable.

The purpose of medicine is to care for the vulnerable. However, in today's society, medicine, changed by law, has given way to a "freedom" of doctors to kill vulnerable patients they deem unworthy or unnecessary to be alive. How frightening that the power to decide over life or death is in the hands of those meant to treat people in need.

You must be aware, be prepared, and be equipped to care for you and your loved ones in this battle.

Brian interviews Dr. Joel Brind, Professor of Biology and Endocrinology at Baroque University, City University of New York. Dr. Brind is world renowned for his research and exposure of the abortion breast cancer link, a direct linear connection that the scientist demonstrated as incontrovertible

In Brian's introduction he explains a deeper issue that is often lost in the abortion debate and in this important battle of ideas: the push for abortion is actually a concerted part of the war against motherhood.

This war against motherhood is the part of a larger cultural battle that includes the false claim that human beings are what is harming the planet, that there is a "problem" of overpopulation, and that young women should not embrace or look forward to the idea that motherhood is a good thing.

This ideological battle that necessarily includes killing young children in the womb, is harmful to women and to all humankind, as it is only through motherhood that human beings can come into the world. The laws of nature, and of nature's God, are under direct assault. The implications of this war on motherhood, the war on the unborn, and the distain for humanity which has become rampant under the current cultural zeitgeist, brings great harm and personal danger for those who fall under its sway. The abortion- breast cancer link is one of the most striking examples.

Dr. Joel Brind explains how pregnancy and the hormones that accompanied it immediately begin to change the nature of a woman's body. One of the most striking and evident changes is enlargement of her breasts and the growth of mammary glands to provide future sustenance for the child she is carrying. As we now know from stem cell research, certain cells are given assignments for a specific job. Before that time they are known as undifferentiated, or stem cell's, the cell's that are to become memory glands begin to develop during pregnancy but do not reach maturation until very late in the pregnancy.

An abrupt end of the natural sensation of pregnancy holds their development in mid-stage. They have not reached the "assignment" stage of being productive memory glands yet. Later in life their presence and undeveloped nature allows them to be susceptible to growing in a disorderly manner, which is the definition of a cancer.

Our Wordsworth section examines the term "reproductive rights" as exposed in testimony before the California State Senate by Brian Johnston. The intellectually dishonest use and abuse of language is one of the essential tools used by advocates of abortion in the battle of ideas.

The opportunity to donate a vehicle, boat or other items to California Pro-Life allows for the best return because of its conscientious attempt to get the best value from each donation: a tax-deductible receipt and the knowledge that their own vehicle has helped helped the pro-life cause.

Western civilization is unique in that it recognizes the value of the human person, and the significance of a single human life.

In this edition of Life Matters, Brian examines the cultural influence of that basic premise and explorers a recent Hollywood film: The Martian. In The Martian, an exploration journey to Mars is dramatically altered and the significance of a single life becomes the central concern of a distant crew, an overextended NASA, the nation, and even the world.

A similar story of risking the lives of others to save one individual's life occurs frequently in battle, but it is Western culture that most poignantly embraces the 'no man left behind' philosophy.

Brian relates the powerful nature of this life protecting ethic via a true story. During World War II, through the unique methods of submarines in recovering downed pilots, all the lives of the subs crew are put at risk. The Japanese culture and the soldiers attempting to kill the airman and sink the sub found this so foreign and foolish and extraordinarily absurd when compared to their value system.

There are many different cultures that have different cultural values. What makes Western civilization unique is that it asserts that individual human lives have value in and of themselves.

In Western Civ's clearest iteration, the American founding, the value of human lives is beyond measure and it is the first duty of government to protect the uniqueness and the rights of every individual life.

You need to work at this moment in history to ensure the survival of Western Civilization. It is at immediate risk. You need to fight to preserve the right to life.

Life Matters interviews Wayne Cockfield of South Carolina. He is the Vice President for Medical Ethics for the National Right to Life Committee.

Wayne recently testified in the South Carolina legislature regarding the ban of dismemberment abortions.

We recommend if you have very young children you may not want them to hear this as this discussion on the importance of the dismemberment abortion ban does bring the focus onto what actually happens in the abortion.

Be ready for a surprise turn about seven minutes in, because Wayne Cockfield makes this whole debate regarding abortion procedures very, very real and in his own person he humanizes the nature of the abortion dismemberment debate.

Later in the program Wayne talks about his experience losing his legs in Vietnam and how dehydration was actually used to save his life. He knows how difficult and painful dehydration is and how today, medicine is using dehydration not to save lives, but to take them.

Brian interviews Carol Tobias, President of National Right to Life. Carol discusses the rapid implementation of euthanasia in Canada.

She also outlines the year ahead for Prolifers in the United States.

In this edition of Life Matters Brian interviews Karen Cross, Political Director for the National Right to Life Committee.

Karen explains the importance of pro-life individuals understanding the civic process and how to elect lawmakers who will vote to protect innocent lives. She explains her experience in West Virginia in trying to pass pro-life legislation and being thwarted by a pro-abortion committee chair.

After deciding to find a candidate to replace that individual, not only were they successful in replacing the pro-abortion legislator but they were then able to pass the Woman's Right to Know Bill in West Virginia.

Karen explains how pro-life legislation like the Hyde Amendment have saved millions of lives; millions of human beings are alive today because of the Hyde restriction on government funding of abortion.

Karen then changes emphasis and explains how well-meaning pro-life people can actually work against their own interests if they don't understand the need to unite behind a winning candidate.

Since the early 70s, Dr. John Willke and his wife Barbara were significant in publishing a handbook on abortion and abortion questions and answers; two books that went into multiple editions around the world and provided the pro-life movement with clear and concise facts as to what really happens in abortion and the cost to both lives and cultural values.

Dr. Willke went on to become president of the National Right to Life Committee for many years the 1980s and early 90s. The second part of the program Brian dedicates to a pro-life convert, Dr. Bernard Nathanson who had nearly the opposite beginnings. He began as an abortion advocate and was one of the principal founders of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Dr. Nathanson personally oversaw more than 75,000 human abortions, acts which he came to deeply regret.

On one floor of a hospital he would fervently work to save the life of a child with a disability and on another floor of the same hospital a perfectly healthy child would be killed for no reason whatsoever in the act of abortion. The dichotomy was too much for Dr. Nathanson and he had to reconcile himself to the fact that human abortion is an intrinsic evil. It violates the very nature of medicine. Thus, his conversion to the pro-life cause came about.

Interviews with both Dr. Willke and Dr. Nathanson explain the traumatic years of the 70s and 80s as America has wrestled with the divisive issue of human abortion.