Life Matters

So much of what goes on in our culture is influenced by ideas, by the ideas that you have about those things, about the words that are used to express the idea and sometimes those words are intentionally misleading. They're meant to mislead you and to mislead your loved ones.  In this episode of Life Matters we're going to talk about the legislature and the fact that laws are made by people that y...

Life Matters interviews John Cox, Candidate for California Governor - the only prolife candidate for California governor endorsed by the California ProLife Council PAC. Brian interviews Mr. Cox by phone and they discuss one of the candidate's core values: the importance and joy that comes from personal responsibility, the abortion issue, the position of both the Democratic Party and the Republican...

The battle of ideas is for your mind and the minds of your loved ones. If you're not on guard and thinking through the ideas that have been placed there by the popular media and maybe even by friends who are misinformed, then you can bring great harm to yourself and others and to society itself. Laws are just ideas that are enforced. So this battle of ideas is more than just a metaphor because wha...

You know the Right To Life is made up of people of faith and some of no faith in particular, but that's okay because this isn't really about OUR faith.  It isn't about OUR personal theology.  This is about whether or not that child in the womb is a human being.  Science has demonstrated that indeed it is.  It's not because I believe that child is unique.  Science has declared that, that the chromo...

In this edition of Life Matters, Brian Johnston interviews Albin Rhomberg, a board member of the Center for Medical Progress. They discuss the exciting news that the Orange County, California, District Attorney has taken legal action and shut down DaVinci Biologics, an international marketer of human baby body parts. The significance of this action has reverberating consequences, not just for the...

Western Civilization underscored the uniqueness of every human life, particularly in the Hippocratic Oath where the doctor swears he will never, ever kill even the most vulnerable.  Christianity reinforced this commitment to individual innocent lives.  Christians, more than anyone else, should now be committed to protecting the value of each and every life.

Welcome Back to Life Matters. We are your program on the right to life, on culture and the very real battle of ideas. Today's program is a special program - you know many Christian stations run this program and while we focus on the right to life as a very clear and non-sectarian commitment to the founding principles of this nation, it's actually a commitment to the founding principles, if you wil...

The State of California is unique in the nation when it comes to abortion. When Roe versus Wade is overturned and states again have the ability to protect unborn children, many states will immediately enact such law. But, California is dramatically different. Not only is abortion allowed at all times and can even be performed by non-physicians, but the state coffers of California are now underwrit...

In this edition of Life Matters, Brian Johnston interviews Joyce Unangst, a paraplegic volunteer and activist. Joyce has been involved for many years in supporting those who cannot defend themselves in a long-term care setting. Brian joins Joyce at a local nursing home in the Sacramento County area. Joyce describes the actual life within a nursing home, the abandonment of many individuals, and fam...

So in the broadest sense, Western Civilization is actually dependent upon a view of the human person, that there's something extraordinary about the human person and therefore, the human person should be respected in a certain way.  We see that in the Hippocratic Oath, very specifically the most vulnerable human persons, when at their weakest, should actually be protected. That's the opposite of t...

You've often heard it said, "Well, everyone has a right to die."  But is that true?  If everyone has a right to die then I'm going to live forever because I simply will not exercise my right to die.  It's an absurd statement that hides a much deeper and sinister meaning.  What they're really saying is they would like to cause people to die or they feel someone should be dead, they're just not dead...

While Life Matters focuses on the battlefield of ideas, something that often trumps ideas and influences many people's decisions, are emotions. Emotions predate our consideration of ideas. As infants, emotions dominate our experience of, and understanding of, the world around us.  Dr. James Dobson once wrote a book called "Emotions: Can You Trust Them?"  Emotions are often indicators. They can ind...

Brian reminds us of the book "On Death and Dying" where Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross outlines the emotional challenges that face everyone confronting a terminal diagnosis. Denial, anger, bargaining, despair and then finally acceptance; these emotional roller coaster challenges are universal when confronting a terminal diagnosis. Surrendering to the despair or anger or denial, and killing the depresse...

Sylvia Aimerito of the PowerOf7 App explains its use and importance for the pro-life movement. The app is free to download to iPhone, smart phones, iPads, etc. Familiarity with the PowerOf7 allows individuals to quickly and easily answer the seven most common pro-abortion arguments. If you ever feel at a loss or insecure about advocating for unborn children, you should consider downloading the fre...

Brian interviews Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. The medical profession in California and in Canada have both abandoned the basic principles of the Hippocratic Oath to never bring harm to a patient. The implications are severe. Ultimately, it is not the patient but the physician who decides which patients will be killed and when. Later in the program, Brian brings an inter...

Brian Johnston interviews Karen Cross, Political Director of the National Right to Life Committee. Karen tells the story because she initially was involved in only wanting to help crisis pregnancies. She felt this was the easiest way to address the widespread abortion culture sweeping her state. A young woman she was counseling told her that she had had an 18-week saline abortion. She had been tol...

Confronting the Culture of Death Brian interviews a returning guest, Nancy Valko, RN. Nancy is a medical ethicist and she discusses her hands-on experience in seeing various medical professionals dismiss vulnerable, medically dependent patients. Nancy demonstrates what the medical practices in many other nations have proven to be true; neurologically impaired individuals are greatly benefited by i...

Is there a right to die? If there is, then I will live forever because I refuse to exercise my right! The phrase, "right to die" is used to imply that everyone should be free to determine their own death. This desire is from the fear of a painful or difficult death. But the resources are there to deal with even the most difficult of pain. If you or a loved one are in pain the answer is not "kill t...

In this episode, Brian again interviews Nancy Valko, R.N. As a Commissioner on Aging and an elder advocate, Brian has seen, up close, many of the issues Nancy refers to; the overworked nursing home employees, the failure of families to visit the medically dependent, the sometimes intentional but often unintentional neglect of nursing home residents. Both Brian and Nancy give concrete suggestions t...

Brian Johnston interviews Nancy Valko regarding copycat suicide and suicide contagion. Nancy, a nurse with a 47 years of experience in the clinical setting dealing with trauma patients and depression, has dealt with all aspects of suicide, including the push for assisted suicide. She is very aware of effective approaches to dealing with depression and suicidal ideation from patients. Suicide conta...

Statistics have consistently shown that abortion is being used as a racial tool. In the year 2016 for example, while Michigan's population is 14% black, 50.5% - more than half of all the abortions in Michigan were done on black babies. Nationwide, while 13% of the population is black, 36% of all abortions were done on black babies. This should not be surprising as Margaret Sanger, the founder of P...

As the California legislature comes to a close for 2017, Brian announces several legislative victories in stopping SB 309, the prochoice license plate bill, and SB 481, regarding intentional dehydration of nursing-home residents. California ProLife citizens responded to a decidedly pro-abortion California legislature and made known they were concerned about the ideological super imposition of the...

Dr. Ben Carson points out that most of us instinctively want to protect helpless creatures and sometimes go to great lengths to do so. He outlined the many commercials about abused animals and the fact that many construction projects are often delayed or even canceled in order to protect an "endangered" insect, amphibian, or fish. His real concern is while that's fine, and he's not suggesting that...

The State of California is unique in the nation when it comes to abortion. When Roe versus Wade is overturned and states again have the ability to protect unborn children, many states will immediately enact such law. But, California is dramatically different. Not only is abortion allowed at all times and can even be performed by non-physicians, but the state coffers of California are now underwrit...

The State of California is unique in the nation when it comes to abortion. When Roe versus Wade is overturned and states again have the ability to protect unborn children, many states will immediately enact such law. But, California is dramatically different. Not only is abortion allowed at all times and can even be performed by non-physicians, but the state coffers of California are now underwrit...