I share this honor with my wife who is my partner in this journey we’ve been on for the past few years through The Radiance Foundation. We have seen God do the impossible throughout our lives, and never stop marveling at how he orchestrates the miraculous.

We are humbled to have been acknowledged by the school, fellow alumni and, in particular, Dr. Pat Robertson and Regent’s new President, Dr. Carlos Campo. It was such a surreal experience to stand there during the introduction and remember that I first shared my story, publicly, on this very campus during a graduation commissioning service. It was a full circle moment.

From someone who “should have been aborted” to an adopted child loved by Henry and Andrea Bomberger (two parents who could never be repaid enough for their love and sacrifice) and 12 siblings to a very happily married man with an awesome wife and four children who are loved like crazy. God will always confound those who think they know the end before one’s beginnings.

Wikipedia, which ranks 6^th in the United States and globally as the most accessed website, is not known for its accuracy nor impartiality. From reporting people dead  before their death (Ted Kennedy, Miley Cirus, Sinbad) to defaming the famous (Bill Gates, Rush Limbaugh, Fuzzy Zoeller) to contributors posing as authoritative figures and then being debunked (supposed professor of religion exposed as 24 year old college dropout) the online encyclopedia is a constant source of controversy.

Wikipedia’s bias toward abortion is nothing new. Conservapedia (which itself reveals bias and incomplete information) lists a handful of examples that only scratch the surface of Wiki’s glaringly evident pro-abortion advocacy.  A more recent example of the absurdity of contributor-bias is Wikipedia’s Maafa 21 entry. It asserts that the film “has been praised by pro-life activists and condemned by historical scholars, pro-choice activists, and other writers…” Apparently, pro-life activists are not historical scholars, or medical professionals, or professors, or other types of educators…just nebulous “activists”.  The article then avoids any of the actual substance of the thoroughly researched documentary and instead relies upon mostly unattributed assertions or feelings about Planned Parenthood. Most noticeably, however, is the ratio of Support versus Criticism in the entry with 5 sentences supporting the documentary and 20 criticizing it. Nowhere in any of the criticism is any actual assertion proven wrong in Maafa 21. The closest the pro-abortion critics come to denying anything specific is in the false accusation that the Negro Project was cast as an abortion initiative, when clearly the documentary (if any of the contributors actually watched the film) presented the initiative as a failed birth control initiative.

Within its official “discussion”, numerous options are provided in changing the vernacular Wikipedia will pursue in addressing abortion in the United States. Its bias toward the ever genteel sounding “abortion rights” is summed up in one assertion found under “Arguments regarding Support for the toleration of Abortion/Opposition to the toleration of Abortion”, stating: “virtually no one is in favour of abortion per se”. Yes, Wikipedia, there are many who are in favor of abortion-on-demand for any reason and at any point in a woman’s pregnancy—Planned Parenthood, NARAL, NOW, International Planned Parenthood Federation, ACLU et al.

Wikipedia never opted to include the labeling choice “Opposition to care for both women and (born/unborn) child” versus “Support for care for both women and (born/unborn) child”, pro-abortion and pro-life respectively. It goes to show how myopic a Wikipedia worldview of abortion is and continues to be.  Liberals always define the pro-life side as “in opposition” to or “anti” something. These gatekeepers of voluminous misinformation have the audacity to point to mainstream media’s depiction of each side of the abortion debate as proof that they should follow suit. Invoking the AP, NY Times, CBS News, NPR and other blatantly biased news networks’ use of “anti-abortion” and “abortion rights” to define each side apparently doesn’t immediately strike these self-described “neutral administrators” of inherent bias.

Bias is the natural result of funding. Wikimedia Foundation’s short list of major donors includes two of the largest population control organizations: the Ford Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation. Both of these organizations have poured hundreds of millions into population control efforts including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the International Planned Parenthood Federatio–the world’s largest killers of the unborn. In fact, Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, is a recent Board Member of the Ford Foundation.

Funny.  Like so many other crucial and relevant details, that fact isn’t mentioned on Wikipedia.

We could kiss salvation goodbye. Adoption is at the heart of our soul’s redemption, yet a maligned consideration on the “prochoice” periphery.  (Planned Parenthood aborts over 392 children for every 1 adoption referral). Half of us would immediately be written off as unwanted, therefore disposable, and certainly not worth eternally saving.

A “prochoice” Jesus would be the ultimate hypocrite having his own life spared from a single teenage mother scenario only to condemn to death others in similar circumstances. He, like the Jesse Jacksons of the world (who was conceived in rape), would enjoy the grand possibility of life while others the grim inevitability of undeserved death.

A Savior who espouses the tenets of the “prochoice” faith would not have to reveal the power of miracles, but instead rely upon a pessimistic outlook that misery is the natural outcome of physical affliction. The blind seeing, the lame walking and lepers healed would only take valuable time and resources away from those who weren’t a burden on society.  He would relish in His efforts to eliminate the “unfit” from the overpopulated world He apparently miscalculated on.

A Christ that embraced abortion dogma would be far less compassionate. That love would be conditional, dependent upon someone’s assigned worth. Those deemed “unwanted” or “undesirable” would automatically be assumed to be unlovable. He would preach to the multitudes that they should treat others how they would like to be treated, unless the others were worthless and their removal improved your bottom line.

Those who sinned and deeply desired redemption would be told that they should, instead, consider how they feel. Did it feel good to lust after someone else’s wife? Did your natural tendency to suppress self-restraint gratify you? Did you feel limited in a monogamous marital relationship that, in turn, forced you to discover your true femininity in sexual exploration? The woman at the well, accused of adultery, would not have been spared from stoning because no men (including the adulterous ones) there were without sin, but because there was no sin to speak of. Christ the ProChoicer would’ve given her partially accurate birth control advice, STD-prone prophylactics and an affirming lecture on how her sexual promiscuity was normal and healthy.

Today we celebrate Good Friday, but a “prochoice” Jesus would’ve prevented such selflessness. Narcissism is at the heart of abortion doctrine. His death and resurrection never would have happened; self-sacrifice is anathema to sacred abortion beliefs. Jesus would not have been seized from the Mount of Olives, because He would’ve chosen someone else to take his place. He had 12 disciples. Certainly one of them could be sacrificed.

Instead we have a Messiah who cares about every life from the moment of conception until natural death and beyond. He chose to be nailed to a cross, despite His innocence, and die so that we can be redeemed, no matter what we’ve done. We have a Savior who saves the most wretched, the most defenseless and the most broken. He emblazoned Purpose on our hearts from the moment we were conceived. In Christ we have compassion, grace, mercy, love, forgiveness, hope and possibility personified.

This Easter, look beyond the pastel colors, the overly-marketed holiday and the well-choreographed Sunday services into the simplicity of why the Resurrection is so meaningful and life-changing.

Know that you are loved unconditionally by the Author of Life, and celebrate the greatest miracle ever created: you.

The Radiance Foundation created a video promo for Americans United for Life (a renown nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization) that exposes the real issue behind this administration’s “Contraception Mandate”. It has nothing to do with lack of access, and everything to do with a systematic pro-abortion dismantling of our Constitution.

This Friday at noon in over 129 cities across the country, people from every religious background (or none at all) are standing up to this attack on our First Amendment conscience rights. We stand with people from every background–Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Catholics, Evangelicals, and yes, even atheists who believe in protecting our Constitutional rights, our freedom of religion, and human life from the moment of conception until natural death.

Let our elected leaders, mainstream media, and the American public know that YOU stand for religious freedom. Join an event in your city this Friday. Find out more at www.standupforreligiousfreedom.com

Some say our Constitution is a “living document”. To that we say, “then stop killing it.”

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Godless. Apparently, it’s a growing trend these days. In the 60s, America was fighting godless racism within our borders and godless Communism overseas. We were also fighting a godless, drug-filled, narcissistic sexual revolution refusing to accept transcendent morality, that found a leader in famed atheist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

As an attorney, she led a public crusade against what she regarded as society’s most potent evil—prayer. In the 1963 case of Murray vs. Curlett, she successfully convinced the Supreme Court to ban prayer from public schools. That’s not where the story ends. She spawned a movement that would get publicity like never before, thanks to her provocative obscenity-laced PR, and a media establishment that was growing more antagonistic toward religion. She founded American Atheists, an organization hell-bent on proclaiming God doesn’t exist. (They’re especially fun during Christmastime.)  She praised Margaret Sanger and denounced religious objections to abortion-on-demand. She also, in typical atheistic boundaryless form, became the chief speech writer for porn titan Larry Flynt in his bid for the Presidency of the United States. Her son—William J. Murray—ironically, runs a organization that fights for religious freedom and family-based legislation. O’Hair claimed that she had post-natally aborted her son because of his conversion to Christianity and that he was “beyond human forgiveness.”

American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair was brutally murdered

Atheism has some serious grudges. Recently, in my home state, American Atheists revealed one of these grudges by placing a billboard in Harrisburg denouncing the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for declaring 2012 the “Year of the Bible”. One local area newspaper even absurdly suggested (through an interviewee) that the organization could be charged with a hate crime.  I’m used to mainstream media hyperbole. I’m an advocate of free (non-violence inciting) speech. They’re free to spew their animus of God, Christianity or any other religion other than their own faith—atheism. I don’t find the billboard racist, just laughable. The message is both historically and scripturally challenged.

But that’s not the bigger story. Ernest Perce, the American Atheist’s PA director responsible for the billboard, also mentioned something that’s more troubling. He promoted the upcoming “Reason Rally”—touted as the largest secular gathering ever in world history. (They’ve obviously never been to a Madonna concert.) American Atheists and the American Humanist Association (AHA), which consider themselves part of the same movement, are the two major organizations behind this rally of atheists, secularists, humanists and “free-thinkers”.

They’re free to gather, protest, offend, or simply defend their dogma like any American, thanks to our First Amendment rights. What they can’t do, however, is escape history. We are a country, contrary to many atheists’ historical impairment, founded upon biblical principles that are infused throughout many founding fathers’ writings, including the Declaration of Independence. The AHA’s Humanist Manifesto I and II attempt to excise our country’s Judeo-Christian underpinnings and replace them with their recycled religion of humanism.

What I find striking in the 1973 Humanist Manifesto II is those who signed this frequently self-contradicting credo:  Alan F. Guttmacher (then President of Planned Parenthood), Norman Fleishmann (VP of Planned Parenthood),  Lawrence Lader (of what is now known as NARAL Prochoice America), Betty Friedan (first president of pro-abortion National Organization for Women) and Faye Wattleton (first black President of Planned Parenthood).  It makes sense when the manifesto declares abortion a right, overpopulation a crisis, and not just the separation of church and state but the “separation of ideology and state”.

It’s easier to push a pro-abortion ideology to a Godless nation. Faye Wattleton candidly acknowledged, during her reign at Planned Parenthood: “I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don’t know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus, but it is the woman’s body, and therefore ultimately her choice.”

It’s just so much easier to kill when you get that morality obstacle out of the way.

The AHA awarded her with their Humanist of the Year award. Other notable recipients are NOW’s Betty Friedan and the political left’s most celebrated eugenist and mother of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger.

Planned Parenthood’s history and present is rife with animosity toward Christianity unless the abortion giant can use religious folk to justify the mutilation of human life. American Atheists and the AHA believe that modernity is better served without religion. In fact, the AHA’s motto is “Good Without A God”.

No thanks. I’m an advocate for the marriage of reason and faith in a world where moral absolutes still exist. I’d rather have a society, served by a non-theocratic government, that was compelled to love others because of a belief in Someone or Something higher than ourselves. We should fear a society that is devoid of God where our humanity is arbitrarily and constantly redefined by those, like Madalyn O’Hair, who celebrate pornography, abortion, and ambiguity.

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Planned Parenthood loves its history. It’s why they will never repudiate it, but instead, repeat it over and over again. With undying devotion from mainstream media, Planned Parenthood increases its brazenness in pushing its brand of ideological slavery.

Recently, they released their crock-umentary “A Vital Service” featuring an all-black “cast” extolling the virtues of an organization that profits from killing, disproportionately, black babies. Targeting black people is nothing new. Planned Parenthood’s been doing it since its founder, a member of the deeply racist American Eugenics Society, started recruiting black ministers and influential leaders to tout her (false) birth control solution to poverty. This week, the Negro Project 2.0 has taken a deeper dive into the surreal.

Trotting out yet another black individual to shill for the number one killer of black people, one begins to see how desperate the world’s largest population control chain is to keep its stranglehold on the black community. Ludwig Gaines, African American Leadership and Engagement Director for Planned Parenthood, harshly criticized the DC Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (sponsored by Congressman Trent Franks and 130 others) as an “attack on women.”

In typical prochoice fashion, he spewed the pathetic mantra of mass distraction: “Suddenly, they’re concerned about black children quite frankly prior to birth, but could care less once they arrive.” He continued saying, “they are the very same people who will not support after-school care, or food stamps, or other programs meant to elevate communities of color.”

So, for those black children that are not slaughtered by Planned Parenthood, the ones lucky enough to be alive are all born into poverty? Food stamps elevate the black community? For a people that have endured some of the most heinous treatment in human history, who’ve defied all odds, and who have risen above impossible circumstances in hostile environments—all he has to offer is governmental dependency?

Perhaps he missed the memo that 27.4% of the black population is living in poverty… not 100%. Children, regardless of which socio-economic situation they’re born into, deserve the best our society has to offer- not a life tethered to a government that continually fails to elevate people out of poverty.

In 1969, only 1.4% of the US population was enrolled in the Food Stamp program (now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) with a national poverty rate of 12%. Today, under President Obama, more Americans than ever are enrolled in this welfare program which amounts to 44,709,000 Americans and a national poverty rate of over 15%. Although the US total population increased 154% since 1969, this ever-growing dependency program has increased in enrollees by a whopping 1553% since it first began. In 2008, under President Bush, our national poverty rate was less at 13.2% and only 28,223,000 were receiving food stamps.

Mr. Gaines, as an employee of Planned Parenthood, seems to have an aversion to actual data. His organization spends more than a million dollars per year lobbying Congress, not just for unfettered access to abortion, but to perpetuate poverty in the urban community by supporting every welfare program. Dissolved families and government dependency give the abortion chain far easier access to the vulnerable.

As far as prolifers who could “care less,” Ludwig Gaines attacks Congressman Trent Franks who confidently declares, “children’s issues are my life.” Franks has a deep history of being an advocate for children and families of all ethnic backgrounds, devoting much of his public life to combating poverty and educational disparities. He authored the Arizona Scholarship Tax Credit, for instance, which has raised more than $240 million for children to attend schools of their family’s choice.  He served both as the Director of the Arizona Governor’s Office for Children and as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Child Protection and Family Preservation. He is yet another prolifer maligned by those whose “care” consists of killing those they consider a burden on society and shackling the rest with liberal social policies that ensure generational poverty.

There is no abortion that Planned Parenthood won’t defend. And there is no low that they will not scrape in order to elevate themselves as savior in the minds of those they’ve failed for nearly a century.

How much has Planned Parenthood poured into the lives of black children, Mr. Gaines? When’s the last time they spent millions on educational initiatives, our housing renovations, or after-school programs? They don’t, and they won’t. Planned Parenthood can’t change their historical DNA. Their founder, Margaret Sanger, despised charity. In her book Pivot of Civilization, she denounced these philanthropies saying, “organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease… instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks of people that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant.”

By its own nature, its own Annual Reports, and its own actions of killing those most vulnerable (by the millions), Planned Parenthood shows it has no concern for children either in utero or once they’re born. Nowhere in American life is racism more concentrated, more documented, and more tangible than inside the doors of abortion facilities. Death, which is the ultimate natural consequence of racism unabated, occurs up to 5.8 times more among black babies than children of any other race. But this racial disparity is celebrated as “reproductive justice” by those often paid handsomely, like Ludwig Gaines, to keep inviting more to get entangled in Planned Parenthood’s web of propaganda and population control.

Growing up in the Jim Crow south, she knew first hand the oppression and evil of racism and its often covert vehicle of eugenics. But she rose above. In 1947, she was admitted to Harvard Medical School, and in 1951 became the first black woman to graduate from the school. And her journey had just begun.

“I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.” –Mildred Jefferson, M.D. (2003, American Feminist magazine)

According to Anne Fox, her friend and president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Dr. Jefferson was responsible for bringing Ronald Reagan into the pro-life movement. As co-founder of the National Right to Life, she is the anathema to the pro-abortion movement, particularly those who conjure up false African-American history in order to bolster their “reproductive justice” propaganda (i.e. SisterSong). Dr. Jefferson, awarded 28 honorary degrees from various prestigious institutions, was unapologetically pro-life and dedicated her life to exposing the evils of eugenics, Planned Parenthood, and the abortion agenda.

We’ll make sure her name and her life are known to the hundreds of thousands we speak to annually. May she rest in peace, knowing that her life will continue to inspire millions to come.

LEARN MORE ABOUT DR MILDRED JEFFERSON AT HISTORYMAKERS.COM

SEE NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE’S PRESS RELEASE MOURNING HER DEATH HERE.

Ryan Bomberger speaks to huge crowd of 5,000

the huge crowd and extolled the legislative victories that have helped to protect women and unborn children.  The diverse crowd shouted repeatedly, laughing and smiling, reflecting the joy of what liberty brings. People traveled from across the Cornhusker state to prove that their capital city’s namesake is not in vain, but the torchbearer of a proud legacy of emancipating those crying out for freedom. Pregnancy Care Center volunteers, doctors, farmers, teachers, pastors, students, mothers, fathers, children…all united to help restore human dignity to the least of these. (Click here to view numerous pro-life legislation that has been passed in Nebraska.)

Ryan Bomberger speaks to packed house at University of Nebraska

It was an amazing time. Inside the Student Union at the University of Nebraska (which was bursting at the seams with the 1000+ rally participants who could fit in the building), I delivered the keynote address, emphasizing the dire need to save beautiful possibility. It was my absolute favorite time. There was something about Nebraskans…their enthusiasm, optimism, and drive. The venue was standing room only (and there wasn’t any more standing room). We thank Nebraska Right to Life for allowing us to share our bold, yet personal, perspective on the Life issue. Being among such passionate prolifers in Lincoln simply proved that inspiration is a two-way street.

For Liberty. For Life.

• Created our new promo, “SHINE”
• Wisconsin Right to Life – Prolife Rally in Appleton, WI – Keynote Address
• Regent University – “Awaken” event – Joined CPC of Tidewater and others in illuminating abortion’s impact in black community – Keynote address
• New Life Providence – Introduction to The Radiance Foundation – featured video introduction in our home church about our life-affirming work
• Regent University – School-wide chapel – (2) Keynote addresses to alma mater
• Family Research Council – ProlifeCon(vention) – Keynote on messaging “Designed to Create”
• Students for Life of America (SFLA) – Annual Conference – Adoption Panelist (largest pro life youth conference in world)
• National Prolife Youth Rally – Teleconference Rally (due to rain) – Spoke to abolitionists across the country, joining other nat’l pro-life leaders
• SFLA – partnered with largest student-oriented pro life organization in new endeavor – TURNTHETIDE2012.com
• Nebraska Right to Life – Prolife Rally in Lincoln, NE – stood with Prolife legislators and thousands of prolifers – Keynote Speaker
• National Black Prolife Coalition – panelist on eugenics and abortion at high-level national pro-life conference
• Forum of Prolife Organizations – Guest speaker on eugenics movement’s influence on abortion and adoption

We’re excited about how 2012 has taken off, and even more excited about how we can continue to reach out to those around us. Our continuing community outreaches will focus on connecting those who believe in more walking and less talking to faith-based efforts in their communities directly impacting those in need.

You can help us illuminate the truth, educate thousands about beautiful God-given Purpose, and motivate people to act in positive ways to bring change to their own lives and their communities. Your tax-deductible donation helps others to shine!  Thank you for your support!

Martin Luther King Jr. was no different. He became enamored with the façade of Planned Parenthood and its glossy cover of family planning and the false assurance of eliminating poverty. Birth control promised equality. It failed. Instead, the divide that King fought so passionately to mend became a chasm filled with communities ravaged by out-of-wedlock births, exponentially high STD/HIV rates, and rampant fatherlessness.

I am grateful, beyond words, for King’s tireless efforts to elevate humanity. His ultimate sacrifice, his very life, reminds me that there are things worth dying for. I know our collective memories of America’s civil rights champions are sacrosanct. But extraordinary people like Martin Luther King Jr. are not omniscient. They were, and are, quite fallible.

Little did Martin Luther King Jr. know that his words (or arguably Coretta Scott King’s) in 1966, immortalized in ink and praising Planned Parenthood, would literally turn blood-red.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s number one killer of African-Americans (more die by abortion than all other causes of death combined), boasts of King’s support at the 1966 inauguration of the Margaret Sanger Award. Abortion wasn’t legal then and married couples adorned the covers of Planned Parenthood’s printed propaganda.

In an advice column he wrote for Ebony magazine, from 1957-1958, King recognized the wrong of abortion in a response to a young man who compelled his girlfriend to the crime. He advised, in part: “One can never rectify a mistake until he admits that a mistake has been made.”

Taking cues from his own advice, supporting Planned Parenthood was King’s mistake. There are disturbing questions that have to be asked, such as “How much did MLK know about this eugenics-birthed organization?” Surely he knew that its founder, Margaret Sanger, prided herself in speaking before the KKK on behalf of her organization’s mission. Did he know about the failed Negro Project? He had to be aware that the president of Planned Parenthood, during the time he accepted the award (via his wife, Coretta), was Alan Guttmacher, former Vice President of the irrefutably racist American Eugenics Society. Certainly he knew eugenicists were forcibly sterilizing women, disproportionately black, across the country, work involving many Planned Parenthood affiliates. Did he not know that all of the peaceful protests, sit-ins, and boycotts in the South were aimed at eugenics-based Jim Crow laws?

Or was he, like many others, too fixed on that glossy cover to turn the page and find out what was inside?

Sadly, his lack of awareness of Planned Parenthood spurred on an even more insidious injustice than that which he challenged with such spiritual fervor. We honor a great man while acknowledging he wasn’t always right. Abortion is now epidemic in the black community. In New York City, abortion occurs 5.8 times more among blacks than whites. Sixty percent of all black pregnancies in NYC, the home of Planned Parenthood, end in abortion. It is epidemic. This certainly isn’t the “dream” MLK spoke of, but a nightmare reality that feeds the abortion industry’s bottom line.

Planned Parenthood commits heinous injustice every single day. When the nation’s largest abortion chain invokes King’s name, to justify the slaughter of over 1.21 million innocent lives each year, it mocks the sacrifice of one who fought, and died, for human dignity.

Martin Luther Kings Jr’s words from decades ago still ring powerfully true: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere!”

*Video produced by The Radiance Foundation