In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston drives home the importance of understanding that Roe vs. Wade has not been “overturned“. Those who focus on using that language have misunderstood and can best be described as only supporters of the 10th Amendment - States’ Rights.

The Dobbs Decision, which was hailed by the media for two months before it’ release as “overturning“ Roe v s.Wade, did no such thing. It is actually completely silent on the use of medicine to kill, and specifically the killing of unborn human babies. This is why the pr-life movement was opposed to Roe, because it violated Western Civilization’s three millennia prohibition against intentional medical killing - the Hippocratic Oath.

Because of the influence of the media on the thinking of the pro-life movement, and even some of its leaders, both religious and secular, the pro-life movement has failed to express or understand the need to address the destruction of medicine which began for the United States on January 22, 1973.

In this episode, Brian uses the comments of United States Senator Steve Danes of Montana as Danes explains the continued use across the nation of the very powerful abortion medication mifepristone. Mifepristone is the killing element of the now famous drug, RU486. Simple people confuse this medication with the so-called “morning after pill.“ It is no such thing. Mifepristone can only be taken if the woman is at least 10 weeks pregnant. She must miss at least two periods for it to have the desired effect of altering her body‘s ability to carry a child and of dehydrating and then expelling the baby from her womb. It is clearly an abortifacient and has no absolutely no contraceptive qualities.

Brian also includes the statement of Tony Perkins, who agrees that the Dobbs Decision is not what the media proclaimed and what many pro-life “leaders” have mistakenly called the overturn of Roe. Perkins explains that there are, in fact, more abortions being done now in the wake of Dobbs, than were done prior to Dobbs.

It is imperative to understand that Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton, the companion decisions of 1973, are very much alive and with us in the United States. And the Right To Life movement must understand its job right now to secure these rights which were promised and committed to in our foundational government documents - the first and preeminent of which is the right to life.

Sadly, many haven't seen the depths to which the violation of the right to life has altered our culture and society. Today on Life Matters, we dive into the idea that support this right, the idea that innocent human lives should be protected.

We have to engage in the realm of ideas. There's a lot of misunderstanding right now in the pro-life movement. Many people have said after 2022 and the Dobbs Decision that Roe v. Wade is overturned, that we’ve won, we've got our goals.

This is a gross misunderstanding and it is a manipulation by the media to get people to say, “Oh,

the pro-lifers have won, so now we’ve got to beat them at the polls.” They lied about the decision. It was illegally released. And the media took seven weeks and pounded a message home that many people repeated. And when it was finally released, they simply repeated what the media had trained them like barking seals. “Roe is overturned.” Roe vs. Wade was not actually overturned. And you're going to find out today that what was impacted was another decision and the principles of judicial review and judicial activism that indeed were challenged in the Dobbs Decision. But Dobbs, intentionally, was silent.

It said nothing about the moral or legal propriety of abortion. It said nothing about what Roe actually did to instruct doctors to kill. Because that's what Roe and its companion decision in 1973, Doe vs. Bolton, actually did. They attacked the ideas that doctors should always protect and care for patients and they were directly assaulted by the highest and most powerful tribunal in your nation. That is what Roe v.s Wade did. And the Dobbs Decision sidesteps and ignores it. The Dobbs Decision says, "Oh, you guys want to do abortion, that's fine, we don't care." If you read the Dobbs Decision, you're going to be alarmed. Even if you read the concurring decision by Justice Kavanaugh, he's rather clear that the court is just going to sidestep. They’re going to leave it to the states, this whole abortion thing. They would not be ruling on abortion."

That's what the Dobbs Decision really did.

People don't understand the implications of that. They're ill-prepared now for what we're living in and to do battle in this culture, both in explaining to lawmakers and explaining to candidates. We're going to equip you to talk about the current laws and the current practices, not only on abortion, but the practice of medicine, because medicine is being used to kill. Medicine is being used to intentionally harm, for ideological reasons, the patients that have been entrusted to their care.

Roe vs. Wade has not been overturned. The media has repeated it, but it’s really not true.

In today’s episode of Life Matters, we’re going to spend some time talking about the meaning of the word ‘overturned’. What does that really mean?

But to answer that, you have to understand what Roe vs. Wade really did. Many people think that Roe vs. Wade simply gave women the right to choose.

We're going to talk about what the Supreme Court really did do in Roe, what it's doing now through the Dobbs Decision and the subsequent decisions which are limiting the power of the judiciary, because that's really what the Dobbs Decision is about. The Dobbs Decision doesn't even talk about protecting life. The Dobbs Decision ignores what Roe vs. Wade actually did. The Dobbs Decision basically said the Supreme Court shouldn't make any laws whatsoever, that the Supreme Court should not have interfered in the states’ decisions and laws.

Dobbs ruled on judicial review, and judicial activism. It is silent on abortion's propriety. But in Roe, The Court had MANDATED that doctors now be killers... this subject is ignored!

And they're continuing to make that assertion. In essence, what the Supreme Court has

done is, not only skirt the ethical issue in Roe v. Wade, but actually ignores the legal and ethical question of abortion. It does address a previous issue that goes all the way back towards America's founding, a case called Marbury vs. Madison. That's where the Court was perceived to have supreme authority over everything.

The idea of judicial review, that there's three co-equal parts of government and it was going to be the

Court. The Court gets to rule over the entire nation. But that's not in the Constitution. Marbury vs. Madison was wrongly decided.

The Supreme Court is not the king of the world. It is not the king of all laws. It is not Congress or the Senate. It cannot make laws. It is not more powerful than the executive branch.

And yet that notion is deeply, deeply rooted in the minds of many Americans.

Please have a deeper understanding of this battle. Understand the battle of ideas. Laws are basically ideas that are enforced. You must master the world of ideas. It's not hard, but you do have to apply yourself, rightly handling these ideas, rightly knowing and understanding the word of truth so that you can apply it to the culture right around you. You need to have an in-depth understanding of this battle if you're going to win. If you want to defend the defenseless, you must be prepared to fight in this battle of ideas because lives really are at stake.

If the New York Times celebrates your Christianity, then be afraid. Be very afraid.

I must admit that being a professing Christian is not an easy thing, particularly today. I hate religious ‘posturing’ - especially in myself. The scripture is clear: Facts and action are clearly what define true religion. The Pharisee and tax collector, one a false ‘religious’ leader, the other a genuinely broken, penitent man, is one of Christ’s more poignant teachings on this. The Good Samaritan another. How real is your, or my faith?

So it is with sadness and carefulness that I must insist mentioning the actual actions: the facts and policies of the late President, James Earl Carter. The recent media swoon and adulation compel me. They swoon precisely because of his policies. They adulate for his leftist, neo-marxist legacy, carefully clothed in wool. While giving us the smiling face of a Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter implemented some of the most family-destructive cultural policies our nation has now come to suffer.

The first Presidential Conference on Families sounded truly wonderful and nearly conservative, except for the fact that it was here, quietly, that the federal government first declared homosexual couples to be ‘families.’ The Christian sacrament of matrimony was directly assaulted with a toothy Baptist grin.

The real legacy of any President is the Courts they leave behind. Those justices will serve for life. You should know that every judge Jimmy Carter appointed was first vetted by the most radical abortion attorney in the nation, and her subsequent leftist panel on the judiciary.

Carter appointed a total of 262 federal judges during his four years in the White House, more than any single-term president in U.S. history. And despite never getting to appoint a Supreme Court nominee, Carter's judicial appointments were history-making in their own right. That's because he appointed a record number of minority and female jurists during his presidency, 57 minority judges and 41 female. BUT IT WAS NOT their color or plumbing that made them eligible candidates in the Carter world, it was their unabashed commitment to leftist ideology.

Strangely, the media at the time never examined the issue of ‘Judicial Temperment’. But that is precisely why Jimmy’s judges were appointed. They had the temperment the press desired. When Ronald Reagan made appointments THEN the actual thinking and policies really mattered to the media, regardless of a candidates’ gender or color, Reagan’s appointments were excoriated.

Legal knowledge and “judicial appointment help” for Carter came from Sarah Weddington, the Texas attorney who, at 26, had successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court. She had joined the Carter administration as an aide for women’s issues and leaked (the even then, notorious) Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name as an Appellate Court pick to the press. She hoped by making it public, then Carter wouldn’t be able to backtrack. As soon as Weddington leaked it, though, she went to the Oval Office and told the president what she’d done. He “didn’t mind,” she later told the Washington Post.

Yes, Jimmy Carter truly and faithfully served the leftist media-zeitgeist. For this his memory is now acclaimed.

We too must remember.

Mr. Carter in many ways served as a precursor to the ‘bumbling’ leftist assault we saw in the recent Biden Administration. He was an easily manipulated figurehead who allowed far-left staffers to simply have their way through him. One recognizable difference was that Mr. Carter freely accepted and then implemented the radical policies into which he was hornswoggled and manipulated. Biden? We really don’t know how much Biden actually understood; he was officially found mentally unfit to stand trial by his own Department of Justice.

Jimmy Carter consciously and intentionally implemented policies designed to destroy the family and respect for innocent human life. You don’t learn that in Sunday School.

In this episode of Life Matters, Brian explores what’s ahead in 2025 and how the election victory of November is merely the beginning.

Brian also explained in detail the nature of his recent illness. His congestive heart failure had him hospitalized for three months - a month and a half in intensive care and a month and a half in cardio recovery care. He is now recovering at home.

Brian explains that the year ahead includes many challenges, including the very strong push for killing the medically dependent. Eleven jurisdictions across the United States have currently authorized physician assisted killing. These laws are aimed at the emotionally vulnerable as well as the physically challenged and/or financially challenged. Brian admits that he was emotionally vulnerable, and depressed during his hospitalization and brush with death. This made him a candidate for physician assisted suicide in California under current California law. Because the law is no longer an advocate, you must be willing to advocate for vulnerable family and friends.

Brian also explained that there is a great misunderstanding of the legal battles ahead for the ProLife cause.

As his book, Evil Twins: Roe and Doe, how the Supreme Court Unleashed Medical Killing, makes clear, the real attack on society and culture in Roe was that it instructed doctors to be killers. This cultural and ethical departure in Roe is explicit and even feminist leaders like Ruth Bader Ginsburg concurred: “Roe is not woman centered. It is physician centered.” These decisions instruct doctors to do whatever they see fit and in particular to even kill at their own discretion.

Many misunderstand what the Dobbs Decision of 2022 actually did to abortion law. It did not overturn Roe, it merely adjusted aspects of Roe v. Wade. In particular, the federalized compulsion to accept all abortions was removed and it was presented as a states’ rights issue.

It’s a great mistake to present or even view the Right To Life cause as a states’ rights issue. This does not address the real ethical, moral and cultural decay that was brought to us by Roe v. Wade.

The right to life cause needs to be prepared to speak up for all vulnerable human beings, regardless of their age, and to be on guard regarding the efforts to promote the killing of depressed, vulnerable, and medically dependent persons. In addition, the real issue of protecting vulnerable human lives, and not merely the emotional attraction of helping babies and mothers needs to be understood.

Brian also announced that many of his writings will now be readily available online at Substack. See @brianjohnston on Substack.

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston explores the idea of popular opinion polls. At election time, the media will often present what they claim to be public opinion on the issue of abortion.

It is critically important to understand that, very often the general, and unspecific nature of the terms used does not often reflect a valid view of public opinion. More specifically, generic feelings about “choice”, support for Roe, or reproductive freedom do not accurately reflect the average American’s view of abortion particulars.

Brian examine’s the current habit for many polling organizations, Pew Research Center as one example, do actually take polls state by state and reach sweeping and generic conclusions. The most common is the statement that the citizens of (fill in the blank) state support all or most abortions.

Yet the very terms ‘all’ and ‘most’ are, in fact, contradictory. All means 100%! Most means 50% or more. There is a chasm of difference. And yet this is the most frequently used phrasing of the Pew CharitableTrust.

Specific polling questions regarding the reasons for the abortion, the gestational age of the child involved in the abortion, and other surrounding factors, greatly impact the public view of the medical procedure. The recent Wall Street Journal poll confirmed what polls have indicated for more than a decade: The majority of Americans are opposed to late term abortion, or abortions that are done for social reasons (i.e. just done for choice) and have varying views regarding the medical purpose that may be involved. Killing a child because of a genetic anomaly is still opposed by the majority of Americans.

Similarly, if the woman’s life is actually in danger, the majority of Americans will condone such an abortion. If the definition of “health” is made specific, the majority of Americans only support abortions for very serious health issues. Under Roe versus Wade, because of its deliberate definition of “health,” as meaning any psychological or sociological reason that the abortionist himself could come up with, alarms the average American and such vague and unspecific definitions of health are not what they mean by endangering a woman‘s life. Yet, Roe versus Wade equated the two terms.

In this episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnson explains the importance of elections, each and every election. More importantly, he focuses on the power of your vote the further down the ballot you go.

On a statewide level, your vote is a drop in the bucket. But as various jurisdictions get smaller, the number of voters also gets dramatically smaller and this is why local elections are so important.

In order to have candidates for the state legislature, or for Congress, you must draw from people with some degree of political experience. Most people who run for these higher offices have had experience at the local level, whether it be school board, city council. or supervisor.

Ironically, it is THESE starter positions, where your vote and the vote of your friends, make the greatest impact. By being involved in local elections, you can launch the career of people who share your values and ideals.

Many elections for city office and for school board are determined by a relative handful of votes. That handful, five or six votes, may mean nothing on the larger level, but to keep Planned Parenthood out of your school district, that handful of votes can be the key difference.

By paying attention to these local races, you are not only effective in protecting your community from organizations like Planned Parenthood and others who seek to control the minds of your children, but you’re helping to elect individuals who wish to see the government make wise decisions. You’re helping out individuals who share your values. You’re making a difference in your state, in your region, in your community.

All politics is local.

In this episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnston explains the real issues that are at stake. Brian warns listeners of the dangers of popular media culture. He reminds us that Orwell‘s purpose in writing “1984” was actually to portray how the average person responds to a dominant media culture, dedicated to influencing and controlling society.

But there are deeper issues that matter, issues that the media either ignores, misrepresents, or intentionally attacks. In order to be truly responsible for ourselves, our lives, our family, and if we believe in God, responsible to our Maker, we must, yes, we must, dig deeper.

Sadly, we live in a culture that appeals to feelings and emotions as our primary source of understanding. These are immediate and surface reactions. This is very unwise. The media knows exactly how to manipulate feelings. The media knows exactly how to direct those feelings into the wrong ideas. That is what it specializes in. Advertising, promoting, and getting the masses to go in a certain direction is its art and inherently what our media culture is all about.

Brian again examined the actual significance of Roe v. Wade and Doe v Bolton. In addition to allowing babies to be killed, more importantly, it assigned a whole new class of killers, people who never were to kill, individuals whose job it was to protect and defend the most vulnerable humans at the most vulnerable time - those in the medical profession. Since January 22,1973, doctors are now professional killers for hire.

Brian brings these phenomena full circle as he discusses the elections of 2024.

He reminds listeners that many elections of America’s past were very, very close and would’ve changed history if they had gone the other direction. He explains the re-election of Abraham Lincoln and how Lincoln was hated by many Republicans in addition to many Democrats.

The fact that Donald Trump has a personality that many people don’t like should not be an issue for the simple reason: the purpose of politics is actually implementing policy.

We must look at the actual policies being sought. We must look at the actual policies being implemented. Kamala Harris is the most radical and extreme, progressive, socialist/communist to have ever run for president. The dominant media is currently trying to redefine and lie about her policies. The media is not your friend. The media has an agenda.

Make sure that you and your family understand what’s at stake for our nation and for innocent lives in this coming election. Make sure that you vote and vote for policies that protect life. Vote all the way down the ballot for people who will stand for the Constitution, for the Right To Life, for the principles that we have been given as Americans. These are all at stake in this election.