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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.

Feb 19, 2020

In this episode of Life Matters Commissioner Johnston interviews Lydia Gutierrez, a California schoolteacher and member of the California Teachers Association.

Lydia outlines the extremely dangerous nature of a current phenomenon in the public school system: the establishment of school-based clinics by Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood is a third-party, outside agency with very clear cultural and ethical messages for children. Planned Parenthood promotes, and in many cases provides abortion for minor children without parent’s knowledge or consent.

Once introduced into a school setting, this outside, third-party agency has complete privacy and government protected secrecy for any conversations or interaction with the minor student. These counselors are not functioning in the same manner as a school counselor, school psychologist, teacher, or principal.  In fact, even the school employees are not allowed to know or be privy to the interaction between the student and the Planned Parenthood employee. The parent is not allowed to know the nature of the relationship between the student and the Planned Parenthood employee.

In December 2019, Planned Parenthood established fifty school-based clinics in the Los Angeles County school district. These clinics are directly aimed at circumventing parental involvement, and inculcating an ethical and moral view, as opposed to the actual purpose of the educational system: equipping students to use their intellectual capacities.