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251: The Subversive Agenda of the Media in Silencing to Right To Life   In this episode of “Life Matters”, Commissioner Johnston explains that we are in a battle of ideas, a frequent theme of the “Life Matters” program. It is critically important to realize that the dominant media culture is not merely tolerant of a pro-death worldview - it is selling it and selling it hard. In many ways, we, here today, are living in a dystopia. Dystopias are not the merely fictional worlds of 1984 or Brave New World, but the authentic cultures in which a particular worldview is constantly repeated and reemphasized by the dominant media. Dissent from that worldview is not condoned. Those who disagree with the official way of thinking are condemned, diminished, and dismissed. The social pressure to accept those ideas are very strong. Look at Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Communist China, Venezuela, around the world, where government and media work together to control the thinking and direction of the populace. That is a dystopian world. Nowhere is that clearer today than on the issue of life. In this episode, Brian takes a deep dive into the real facts behind the media manipulation regarding public opinion and abortion. The intentional use and misuse of language is inescapable. Brian examines some of the key terms,  e.g. “choice,” but also takes a deeper dive into some of the admissions that public opinion polling actually reveals. Public opinion polling demonstrates that the vast majority of Americans actually respect life. The vast majority of Americans would actually like to see the vast majority of abortions prohibited. But you are not told that by the media and especially not by the commentators.   Public opinion polls that ask more detailed questions rather than simply ‘pro-life’ or ‘pro-choice’  but ask about the circumstances regarding abortion, reveal that the average American, even those who call themselves pro-choice, do not believe in abortion-on-demand. In fact, they have a profound respect for the life of the child in the womb. This has been consistent in American polling since the issue came into the public sphere. Both the Gallup Poll, which has conducted an annual poll since 1975, and the Marist Poll, used by NBC news, reveal that late-term abortions and abortions that are done for casual social reasons are very much opposed by the average American. The polling figures seen below show that barely 1/4 of Americans support the idea of any abortion, at any time in pregnancy. Yet this is the actual meaning of the word “choice” abortion, though the media plays with that word for its own misleading purposes.   The media does not admit these numbers. The media does not want you to understand these numbers. The media has an agenda to influence casual inquirers, but also even YOUR thinking as a pro-life individual! They mean to discourage and dissuade you. Don’t let that happen - make sure that you think it through and share with others the objective facts of what happens in a human abortion. The facts are on your side and facts are terrible things to waste.