Life Matters

In our ongoing effort to awaken Californians to the very real possibility of replacing Gavin Newsom, the single most outspoken advocate of intentionally killing human beings for social reasons, we are making known some of the alternative candidates.

We have already published under the California Prolife Council webpage a listing of the life stances of all the candidates there are 14 candidates who have either signed pledges or made public statements that they believe the law should protect innocent human lives.

In today's program we interview three more of the diverse and interesting people who are pro-life, and seek to replace Gavin Newsom for governor.

* Chauncey "Slim" Killens

* Joe Symmon

* Diego Martinez

California Prolife Council has not made a specific endorsement, but is encouraging voters to first vote 'Yes', to replace Gavin Newsom and then of the 14 remaining alternatives choose a favorite pro-life candidate. The combined 'Yes'es for recalling Gavin Newsom are absolutely necessary in order for the recall to be successful.

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston issues a California action alert on Senate Bill 380. The measure has passed out of the Senate and is now going to the Assembly floor.

Each and every member of the Assembly will be voting on it. If approved, it would go to the governor, who supports intentionally killing the depressed vulnerable patient.

SB-380 removes all existing 'safeguards' for depressed and dependent patients.

The Assembly is preparing to vote, and the death folk are pushing it hard!

Depressed COVID patients, nursing home residents, solitary elderly, the ill and infirm, disabled - all now in the crosshairs of a killing medical profession. Stop expansion of 'assisted suicide'!

When assisted suicide was narrowly passed with bipartisan opposition during a special legislative session on Medi-Cal in 2015, then-Senator Bill Monning, a co-author of the bill, assured opponents in California Healthline that, "the joint and co-authors on this bill … have endeavored to build in protections in this [measure] that are stronger than the protections in any of the states where this has been practiced." Now the bill authors are proposing to remove their own "safeguards." "SB-380 (Eggman) will roll back the following "safeguards" that were assured in 2015 including:

•Prematurely ending the existing 2025 sunset date and legislative reevaluation option four years early with little to no scientific data to support this action (especially in light of the worldwide pandemic);

•No future oversight or evaluation of Annual reports about assisted suicide requests and their out outcomes. Existing reports do not contain any data regarding complications, reasons for requesting the lethal drugs, and for the limited data provided, much is listed as "unknown."

•Removes the 15 day waiting period "safeguard."

Please immediately URGE your Assemblymembers to vote 'NO' on SB-380 and protect patients.

In this episode of Life Matters we continue interviewing several of the many Pro-life candidates running for governor. Today's program includes: James Hanink, Robert Newman, comments from Larry Elder, and reference to Doug Ose, who has withdrawn from the race due to a heart attack. There is also reference to the upcoming LifeFest Film Festival with update from Actor Kevin Sorbo. LifeFest will be available for online streaming in your home beginning August 26-31, 2021.

257: California Gubernatorial Recall of Gavin Newsom

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston explains the recall of California Governor Gavin Newsom. Particular focus is brought on the life issues as pursued and implemented by Governor Newsom.

For a successful recall at least half of the voters must vote "yes" on the first question on the ballot: "Shall Governor Newsom be recalled?"

If that question receives more than 50% 'yes' then the second question is: "Who should replace him?"

Forty-two candidates have filed as potential replacements, and 14 of them are pro-life. Brian introduces both them and relevant issues of California policy. Future programs will allow opportunity for candidates to introduce themselves.

Throughout Western Civilization it has always been asserted that human beings are more than merely animals. They should not be treated like animals that can be owned or disposed of but that we have an intrinsic value, a spark of the divine, what the Judeo-Christian world calls the image of God. There is something special about human beings.

Each individual is unique and deserves protection in particular when they are most vulnerable.

Today's episode delves into the science of ultrasound and the power of this technology to see these individual lives within the womb. Brian will talk with Bri Knaus, owner of Hello My Baby which provides ultrasound services beyond the traditional 2D imagery that most people are familiar with.

The proof of life is in the pictures!

https://hellomybaby3d.com

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 had already taken place with the wide-spread adoption and excitement surrounding Hegel's view of history. History was considered matters of the past. But, "what is significant is that we are now going into the future. What truly matters is that these old things are left in the past and we now progress into a brave new world of promise." In this improved world, "the government is to bring about these courageous further steps of progress."

But this is a very distorted view of history. History is cumulative. History has led up to this very moment.

In the Spielberg movie, Amistad, the lead Mende tribesman was brought before the United States Supreme Court. He was asked what he wanted to do and why he was doing it His answer not only summed up their decision but summed up a view and understanding of history that all of us should share: "My ancestors lived so that I might stand in this moment."

This incisive understanding of history and respect for the facts of history will also help us in understanding our moment, in understanding our present battles.

What happened in The Civil War

Brian then takes a deep dive into exploring one of the most common misunderstandings of Abraham Lincoln, his commitments, and the real nature of the Civil War. Many think that the Civil War was about suppressing the slave states rights to own slaves. But that is not the case.

In fact, Lincoln's position on states rights was exactly the opposite. Lincoln was fighting for the right of FREE states to exercise their duty within their jurisdictions to protect the lives of those under their authority. Once that ability was established, then the Senate could consider what laws ought to apply to all the states. That would eventually happen in the13th and 14th amendments, but it was not possible if free states were not even allowed to abolish slavery!

Several actions by the federal government were actually preventing the rights of the free states to be exercised within their borders. The Fugitive Slave Law, the Kansas Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott Decision, all infringed on the rights of free states to exercise their duty under natural law to protect those who could not protect themselves (the same basis that individual states would later use to ban abortion).

Even though free states could say that they were free states, according to the federal government, a slave was never legally free until he or she crossed the Canadian border. The most odious of these offenses against free states is the blatantly pro-slavery Dred Scott Decision, which explicitly said that states could not ensure freedom or protect the lives of slaves inside their jurisdictions.

This was actually the same action of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions: proclaiming it as federal law that one could own another human being, and that one was free to kill a human being whom they claim to own. States were not free to ban this principle of deadly ownership of human beings.

Roe and Doe specifically prohibited pro-life states from enacting their laws. This was a direct assault on the nature of the Constitution and the authority of the States. In addition, it assumed the authority of the United States Senate to both speak for, and then impose federal law on the several states. The nature of the United States Constitution was trampled by the Dred Scott Decision in slavery, was trampled by Roe and Doe and by the abortion culture which they unleashed.

In this second episode of Life Matters with Dr. Patrick Marmion, Brian explores the current debate and dramatic culture change that is being brought upon end-of-life care and the presumption of both non-treatment and termination of dependent and vulnerable patients.

Dr. Patrick Marmion is an obstetrician gynecologist that has worked in various aspects of the medical profession for more than 46 years. In this extended episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston explores questions of medical ethics and the incredible pressure that is placed on physicians to comply with the killing of patients.

In this first episode, Dr. Marmion relays his story of being forced to support abortion and even being dismissed from a Catholic hospital after his public lecture and demonstration of the direct harms that abortions cause to women.

251: The Subversive Agenda of the Media in Silencing to Right To Life

In this episode of "Life Matters", Commissioner Johnston explains that we are in a battle of ideas, a frequent theme of the "Life Matters" program. It is critically important to realize that the dominant media culture is not merely tolerant of a pro-death worldview - it is selling it and selling it hard. In many ways, we, here today, are living in a dystopia.

Dystopias are not the merely fictional worlds of 1984 or Brave New World, but the authentic cultures in which a particular worldview is constantly repeated and reemphasized by the dominant media. Dissent from that worldview is not condoned. Those who disagree with the official way of thinking are condemned, diminished, and dismissed. The social pressure to accept those ideas are very strong. Look at Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Communist China, Venezuela, around the world, where government and media work together to control the thinking and direction of the populace. That is a dystopian world. Nowhere is that clearer today than on the issue of life.

In this episode, Brian takes a deep dive into the real facts behind the media manipulation regarding public opinion and abortion. The intentional use and misuse of language is inescapable. Brian examines some of the key terms, e.g. "choice," but also takes a deeper dive into some of the admissions that public opinion polling actually reveals. Public opinion polling demonstrates that the vast majority of Americans actually respect life. The vast majority of Americans would actually like to see the vast majority of abortions prohibited. But you are not told that by the media and especially not by the commentators.

Public opinion polls that ask more detailed questions rather than simply 'pro-life' or 'pro-choice' but ask about the circumstances regarding abortion, reveal that the average American, even those who call themselves pro-choice, do not believe in abortion-on-demand. In fact, they have a profound respect for the life of the child in the womb. This has been consistent in American polling since the issue came into the public sphere.

Both the Gallup Poll, which has conducted an annual poll since 1975, and the Marist Poll, used by NBC news, reveal that late-term abortions and abortions that are done for casual social reasons are very much opposed by the average American. The polling figures seen below show that barely 1/4 of Americans support the idea of any abortion, at any time in pregnancy. Yet this is the actual meaning of the word "choice" abortion, though the media plays with that word for its own misleading purposes.

The media does not admit these numbers. The media does not want you to understand these numbers. The media has an agenda to influence casual inquirers, but also even YOUR thinking as a pro-life individual! They mean to discourage and dissuade you. Don't let that happen - make sure that you think it through and share with others the objective facts of what happens in a human abortion.

The facts are on your side and facts are terrible things to waste.

In this episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnston explores the more profound significance of the Roe v. Wade narrative. As has been discussed in other programs and deeply explained by other Supreme Court justices, by Justice Blackmun's court clerks, and many other legal experts who would prefer legalized abortion, Roe versus Wade is a confusing jumble. It's a wild story that leads us confusingly through legal and medical history, through an arbitrary division of pregnancy into trimesters and assertions of where abortion should be performed in the various trimesters.

Brian explains that this narrative, this story, is a spiel. That is why other legal experts can't get it to make sense. It's a story to distract us and confuse us. The new real action taken is in Doe versus Bolton, where Blackmun clearly states that he will authorize and direct doctors to now be killers and that they can use their personal medical judgment at any time in the pregnancy. They need not answer to anyone else for that decision.

The purpose of the spiel, just like the purpose of a criminal's alibi, is to provide a justification for a crime that either has taken place or is about to take place.

The spiel is a relatively common aspect of social life, used by gypsies and thieves. Unless you are fully prepared and understand that it is designed to distract you, there is great danger in trying to follow it or believe in it. Its purpose is to sell you on a final conclusion that may indeed be to your greater harm. Roe versus Wade is exactly that. Doe versus Bolton is the deadly real result. Roe is the distracting spiel, Doe is the crime.