Brian Johnston

Life Matters

Society EN ↓ 294 episodes

Commissioner Brian Johnston examines, along with various guests and experts, how the dismissal of the legal right to life has impacted the nature of the law, the practice of medicine, ethics, the arts, and personal relationships. With constant reminders of how a culture of life invigorates and ennobles the human experience, Johnston and his guests give positive answers and access to numerous available resources.

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Brian Johnston

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Society

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Latest episode

Oct 7, 2025

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Episodes

015: Life Film Festival 21.04.2017

Brian Johnston meets with Roger Marsh of the radio show Bottom Line and they interview Beau Brians: Communications Director of Life Fest Film Festival. The single most influential town in our nation is that place we refer to as "Hollywood". In the battle of ideas regarding the value of human life, Hollywood is a natural starting point. The influence of films on our culture and the thinking of the...

Minute: Life Film Festival 19.04.2017

Life Fest is the film festival dedicated to showcasing films that reinforce the intrinsic worth of innocent human life and the profound significance of each life.

Minute: RU 486 13.04.2017

RU-486, a powerful new drug that destroys human life from within a mother's womb.

Minute: Good Hospice v Bad Hospice 13.04.2017

Commissioner Johnston compares good hospice care versus bad hospice care and invites listeners to become a part of the fight for the Right To Life in California. To help stop the tragedy of assisted suicide, go to StopAssistedSuicide.com and help us win the Battle of Ideas. Air Date: N/A

014: National Right to Life Equipping You for the Battle for Life 12.04.2017

Brian Johnston, the host of Life Matters does in-office interviews with key staff members of the National Right to Life Committee. Brian interviews Jackie Ragan, Director of the NRL Convention, on the importance of the National Right to Life convention in bringing together the Pro-Life family from across the nation, and equipping individuals with a deeper understanding of how to win in the battle...

Minute: Mosquitoes and Dogs 10.04.2017

Advocates of assisted suicide misrepresent the nature of the law and why we protect the lives of human beings above that of other animals. They make false statements like "we're kinder with sick dogs then we are to sick people." This thinking misrepresents the facts. To help stop the tragedy of assisted suicide, go to StopAssistedSuicide.com and help us win the Battle of Ideas. Air Date: N/A

Minute: The Purpose of Government 06.04.2017

American founders believed life was unique and extraordinary. They established laws and our entire form of government on the belief that you have a Creator and your Creator has given you certain inalienable rights. The government did not give you those rights. The government did not give you life. It is the job of the government to actually protect your rights and in particular the foundational Ri...

Minute: Canadian Organ Harvesting 03.04.2017

Doctor assisted suicide was legalized in Canada in 2016. By early this year widespread organ harvesting of patients killed by physicians had already begun. In March 2017 the National Post of Canada published a front page article wondering if a person had agreed to donate organs but then decided to change their mind about being killed, felt additional pressure on them to go through with it? Air Dat...

013: The Difference One Life Can Make 01.04.2017

Brian Johnston interviews author, businessman, radio host Marty Pay. They discuss how one individual's involvement in the needs around them is the most immediate answer to human challenges, and it always has been. Includes review of the (1987) documentary, "Weapons of the Spirit." Air Date: 4-1-17

Minute: Actualities of Why We Walk San Francisco 31.03.2017

Brian Johnston speaks on the actualities of why we participate in Walk San Francisco and invites listeners to become a part of the culture of life and fight for preserving the Right To Life in California. For more information go to californiaprolife.org. Air Date: N/A

Minute: The Facts About Abortion 30.03.2017

Brian Johnston shares some alarming facts about abortion and invites listeners to become a part of the fight for preserving the Right To Life in California. For more information, go to californiaprolife.org and help us win the Battle of Ideas. Air Date: N/A

Minute: California ProLife Council 25.03.2017

Commissioner Johnston invites listeners to become a part of the fight for preserving the Right To Life in California. For more information, go to californiaprolife.org and help us win the Battle of Ideas. Air Date: N/A

Minute: The Real Significance of Mercy Killing 22.03.2017

Many American states are now embracing the idea that the laws should be changed to legalize killing a patient in the name of compassion but this is a very ominous change. Commissioner Johnston reads an article that appeared in the New York Times in 1933. The the new national-Socialist government of Germany had proposed the compassionate killing of incurable patients. This small beginning was the o...

Minute: Mary Shelley 20.03.2017

Science is meant to be a tool, a tool of learning, just like a butchers knife or a scalpel is simply a tool, the moral judgment of those who use the tool is critical. It can be used for good or it can be used for great evil. In 1816 a young girl Mary Shelley wrote an incredible marvel describing the combination of the industrial revolution with medical science and the danger of it's lacking a mora...

012: Team for the Battle – National Right to Life Committee 18.03.2017

Brian Johnston and his special guest, Lawrence Lehr from Sonoma County ProLife, discuss how you can get involved and make a difference in the Battle of Ideas with the help of volunteer programs and the unifying ideals of the National Right to Life Committee. Brian answers a listener's question on whether or not assisted suicide is actually an act of compassion for the dying or an emotional escape...

Minute: Sanctity of Human Life Created in the Lab 17.03.2017

An article in the British newspaper the Telegraph on March 2nd, 2017, declares that artificial human life could soon be grown from scratch in the laboratory after scientists successfully created a mammal embryo using only stem cells growing embryos which supposedly help researchers to study the fairly early stages of human life but also prove controversial and raise ethical questions about what co...

Minute: The House of Lords 16.03.2017

Brian Johnston shares what the House of Lords decided September 11th, 2015, on the matter of assisted suicide through the use of a a 750 page report that can be found at http://www.patientsrightscouncil.org. Air Date: N/A

011: Trump Addresses Abortion Funding and More 11.03.2017

Few people realize how much government support, underwriting, and protection the abortion industry receives in the state of California. Brian Johnston and his special guest, Albin Rhomberg, discuss the actual issues of government sponsorship of the abortion industry, Donald Trump's commitment to stopping federal funding of Planned Parenthood, and the failure for many private individuals to recogni...

Minute: North Texas Hospice Medicare Fraud Scheme 08.03.2017

Brian Johnston reads a hospice story ripped from today's headlines in the Dallas News, March 2, 2017, "…The owner of the Texas hospice company allegedly encourage employees to overdose patients for monetary gain is among sixteen individuals charged…in a sixty million dollar medicare fraud scheme." What should truly alarm you is that they're indicted for taking money from the government and not for...

010: Is Suicide Infectious? 04.03.2017

Is suicide infectious? Suicide contagion has been documented throughout history the earliest historians of Western civilization Plutarch and Herodotus recorded several examples of suicide cults in addition to suicide epidemics. Special guest interview with Dr. Mark Hoffman. Air Date: 3-4-17

Minute: Tax Funded Abortion 02.03.2017

The abortion industry is financed by the government on many levels federal, state, county and sometimes municipal. But there is no other 'choice' industry that enjoys such government sponsorship. You can choose any car you want but the government doesn't have to buy it for you. Air Date: N/A

Minute: Using The Term "Mother" 27.02.2017

In the appendix to his book 1984, George Orwell explains how the minds of citizens in that dystopian world were controlled, it was through the use of language known as 'Newspeak.' In 2017 the British Medical Association instructed all personnel to change their use of language in a booklet titled, "A Guide To Effective Communication- Inclusive Language In The Workplace." Physicians were specificall...

009: Silver Tsunami 25.02.2017

Dispelling the myth that the seniors in society are a burden. There is a wave of an aging population now crashing down upon us. What we decide to do about it will reveal what we truly value and determine if we are still a society that protects vulnerable human lives and their Right To Life. Air Date: 2-25-17

Minute: Facebook Police 24.02.2017

What is the purpose of the law? To do everything for you? To take care of all your needs? Or are there clear, essential qualities to the law and nature of government. According to America's Founders, the first and foremost is the protection of lives. And the pro-life movement believes exactly that. Air Date: N/A

008: Assisted Suicide - The Killing Assistant 18.02.2017

The laws on assisted suicide only really change one thing. Now assistants and those who encourage suicide will no longer be scrutinized or held accountable. Air Date: 2-18-17

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