Ryan Bomberger, founder of Radiance Foundation, utilizes his skills in marketing to dispel the myth of “unwanted” children, doing so because for him it is personal.
Bomberger regularly shares his story, how he could have, and some would say should have been aborted.
“I could have been aborted,” Bomberger said in an interview from 2019. “My birth mom went through the horror and violence of rape and yet was courageous enough to choose life for me. Not only choosing life for me and for her, she gave me the incredible gift of adoption.”
Bomberger, who was the first of 10 children adopted by Andrea and Henry Bomberger, joining their three biological children, felt particularly compelled to counter the rape and abortion narrative during the current election season, where abortion is front and center.
While tragic personal stories of women are being exploited to promote abortion, The Radiance Foundation has created two 60-second spots for YouTube, seeking to offer a different perspective than the one that justifies abortion violence.
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“Some say that I should have been aborted,” Bomberger states in the spot titled, “I Am The One Percent.” “I am the 1% that is used 100% of the time to justify abortion.”
Rather than concede special circumstances to abortion arguments, Bomberger brings a Biblically compassionate viewpoint by giving personal testimony to the discussion.
The second spot titled, Adopted In Love, highlighted the joy of family which has been Bomberger’s lifelong experience. As an adoptive parent, his family has been blessed with four children.
The ad spots are a direct response to abortion activists’ use of the stories of rape and incest victims to tout abortion as essential and even label it as healthcare. The Radiance Foundation looks to place the ads on news outlets and other platforms.
There are some particular pro-abortion ads that helped to spur the Radiance Foundation ad spots, they feature a young woman named Hadley who was raped by her stepfather and impregnated at the age of 12. One ad was part of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear' campaign last year and the other is a current one for the Harris-Walz campaign.
Bomberger called it tragic for this young woman to be used to promote unlimited abortion for any reason at any point in pregnancy.
“I first saw the Kentucky ad and my first response was just heartbreak for someone who went through that,” Bomberger told Pregnancy Help News. “To think that she is now being used, because that’s what it is.”
“These women all used to advance the violence of abortion and she’s no different,” he said.
You would never know from the ads, but Hadley never actually had an abortion, Bomberger said. Rather, Hadley suffered a miscarriage that ended her child’s life.
“What frustrated me more,” Bomberger said, “that you don’t know through that ad—the Kentucky ad or the DNC’s 60 second ad—you’re led to believe she had an abortion. It talked about ‘I had options.’”
Bomberger had other questions.
“Who reported the crime?” he asked. “Why aren’t you talking about the rapist?”
In this case, the perpetrator has been caught and sent to jail, but those important details never enter into the course of promoting abortion. For Bomberger it was disheartening to see this young woman used at the DNC convention without talking about the wounds of the sexual abuse she had suffered and using her as a promoter of abortion when she did not have an abortion.
“I wanted to respond—instead of addressing the political question—addressing the personal dilemma,” Bomberger said.
Bomberger’s organization focuses on what he calls “factivism,” which is focused on utilizing facts to illuminate, educate, and motivate people to stand up for life.
“And as I’ve discovered by talking to rape survivors across the country at events on college campuses, in churches, in schools, and in adoption-related conferences, there is a common thread,” Bomberger said. “Children conceived in rape are often considered by their biological mothers as the only redemption amidst the horrific devastation of rape.”
“I continue to meet these women, both post-abortive (who often express their regret) and those who gave birth to their child,” Bomberger said. “To add a little more context, abortions due to rape constitute 1% of all abortions nationwide.”
“The violence of abortion, on both the child and the mother, does nothing to punish the rapist,” he said. “According to the many post-abortive rape survivors I’ve talked to, it doesn’t erase the emotional or physical trauma either.”
The beautiful possibility that every life possesses is the focus of Bomberger’s speaking engagements. Because he was given the opportunity to live, love and redeem what the rapist tried to destroy.
“Our stories are full of hope, full of love, full of purpose,” he said.
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Bomberger is convinced that as the 1% share their experiences, thus humanizing those conceived in rape, that people’s hearts and minds can be changed by the truth that triumph can rise from tragedy.
Bomberger notes that none of us control the circumstances of our conception, and therefore he seeks to defend what some who even identify as pro-life will exclude, the hardest cases. When you address what he likes to instead call the “heart cases” you are strengthening the pro-life position.
“Abortion doesn’t care why you engage in it. Why you have chosen it.” Bomberger said. “It still harms you emotionally, physically, psychologically, spiritually. We’re trying to stop an industry from exploiting women by using exception cases like mine.”
The two Radiance Foundation spots can be viewed HERE and HERE. For more information on the Radiance Foundation, click HERE, and for more information on Ryan Bomberger’s story visit AdoptedAndLoved.com.
