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Life Matters


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.

Oct 24, 2019

In 1973, the Roe versus Wade decision overturned the protective laws of all fifty states. These laws respected the humanity of a child in the womb and had been established immediately following the Civil War. That War established that black human beings who were innocent could not be owned or killed at will. Medical science and the medical profession, through the American Medical Association and other advocates, had insisted after the Civil War, that now a vulnerable and innocent human being in the womb also needed the protection of the law.

Roe versus Wade in 1973 ignored the humanity of the child and gives this vulnerable human being absolutely no protection whatsoever throughout the United States. Many people have come to disagree and bemoan this legal situation. But being pro-life is much more than merely a feeling or opinion about that decision. The essential question for the pro-life movement is, “What shall we do now?”

While there are many projects and social work proposals that are pursued, failure to address the reality that the law has legalized and is promoting the killing of these children, is failure to recognize what the ongoing battle truly is.

When Roe v. Wade is overturned it will be up to local citizens to elect life-respecting representatives who will enact life-protecting laws. 

Many religious groups are either ignorant of, afraid of, or perhaps worse, feel it to be unspiritual to be involved in the civic process of their community. But those who are committed to protect innocent lives understand the need to organize locally with fellow pro-lifers of diverse backgrounds. This is what a local Right To Life chapter does.

Lawrence Lehr, of Sonoma County Pro Life joins us in this episode of Life Matters.  He explains how local individuals who consider themselves pro-life have a duty, responsibility and the very easy ability to impact their community. 

Training local pro-life speakers, focusing on the objective scientific and legal facts regarding these departures from Western Civilization; and making known these principles to the community help prevent this from being seen as merely a religious opinion, but instead recognized for what it is: the number one civil rights issue of our time. 

When local communities become pro-life, entire states become pro life, and it is the states that will once again, with the overturn of  Roe v. Wade, be free to protect the vulnerable innocent. That the law should protect innocent lives is the very basis of our civilization and the very heart of our legal system. Working for that change is the entire purpose of the right to life movement.