May is National Foster Care Month and we celebrate that adoption unleashes Purpose!

Each year, nationally, there are about 120,000 children available for adoption through the foster care system. Less than half of those children find forever families each year. As a nation, we can do so much better. Being “pro-life” is not complete without adoption. And these precious children, through no fault of their own, are placed in a government system that cannot possibly provide the love, permanency and nurturing care these children need. In other words, we NEED more mommies and daddies to step up and choose to love a child, of any race, because every child deserves a family.

Ryan, adopted at 6 weeks, was one of 13 children, 10 of which were adopted. He grew up in a multi-racial family with children of varying backgrounds, some with special needs and most from the foster care system. He is passionate about children being connected to families. But that cannot happen unless adults are intentional and take proactive steps to be that life-changing resource.

There are many great organizations that help with the adoption journey such as Bethany Christian Services (Bethany.org or AdoptionJourney.org) and AdoptUSKids.org. Each explains the process and shares the joy of other adoptive families. The Radiance Foundation is also part of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, a global network of faith-based pro-adoption organizations that do remarkable work around the globe in caring for orphans and working to provide them with a future in a family that will treasure them.

Adoption is an act of justice, of mercy, and of love. Ryan’s life was awesomely changed by it. Millions of others’ lives have been too.

The Radiance Foundation, a life-affirming educational organization, is honored to speak for those who often cannot speak for themselves. And the words that will be the focus during this Over the Edge for Adoption event are simple: Adopt. Be the Hope

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Every year my wife, Bethany, and I dread filing our taxes. We’re diligent and organized, but worry about missing some minute detail that would trigger the harrowing experience of an audit. I’ve been through one before because I own a small business. In the end, the IRS paid me thousands more in that year’s refund.

Middle class families have been hit hard with a crumbling economy, so getting any tax break we can relieves some of the fiscal pain, especially for adoptive families. The Adoption Tax Credit enables parents to recoup some of the out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the adoption process. The $13,360 refundable tax credit for 2011 was a welcome offset. (Depending on the type of adoption, that refund would only be a fraction of the actual cost—a cost that is well worth it.) It was the most the federal government has offered since 2006, and only 2010 and 2011 were refundable. In all other years, including this most recent year, the Adoption Tax Credit was non-refundable. This means it will only offset any amount that you may owe in federal taxes, but adoptive families will not see any of that amount refunded in cash.

It’s amazing—strike that—tragic that in a government that can shell out billions of our tax dollars to fund an industry that kills for a living (aka Planned Parenthood), there’s very little offered to families who open their homes and their hearts to children through adoption. So when a promised federal tax break is provided, it’s infuriating to find out we were among many others whose tax returns were discriminated against and targeted for audits.

We thought it was strange that, after filing, we received a letter requesting the very documentation that we painstakingly included in our initial mailing to the IRS. They asked for adoption documentation that we only had a few precious copies of and insisted the agency hadn’t received any of it. Then, they arbitrarily eliminated expenses (meticulously detailed) wrongly claiming they were not adoption-related. In the end, we were more concerned about getting the refund we were owed than endure any further examination and delay. So, we allowed them the unjustified eliminations.

The Radiance Foundation celebrates adoption.

Yet these latest IRS scandal revelations have not shown the true disgrace this federal agency has become. Adoptive parents do all they can to affirm the beauty of life of those wrongly labeled “unwanted” and get hassled for applying for a credit legally available. Yet the nation’s largest abortion chain, a 501(c)(3), has managed to elude any IRS scrutiny despite grossly violating the exemption requirements for such entities. As a reminder, a 501(c)(3) organization, according to the IRS, “may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates.” Read the majority of Planned Parenthood’s press releases. Just read the URL. It says it all. They advocate for specific legislation all the time. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (and I’m not referring to its designated political action group, Planned Parenthood Action Fund), is a taxpayer-funded (Democrat) political machine.

On October 19^th of 2012, Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, “took a break” from her “day job” (one that paid her a whopping $583,323 from July 2011 through June 2012) to campaign full-time for Obama. Did she take a $28,766.61 pay cut for her 18 days of electioneering? Did the IRS scrutinize the 501(c)(3) corporate welfare giant over this?

Of course not. So why aren’t pundits asking why Planned Parenthood hasn’t been audited? The answer is obvious and deeply politically oriented.

This administration is showing through every overlapping emerging issue that it is inept and corrupt. How about less “transparency” and more integrity? We wouldn’t need all of the empty rhetoric and endless shows of transparent distractions if we had government leaders who upheld the law instead of their agendas.

May is National Foster Care Month. We need more families who will sacrifice convenience for compassion. Children awaiting adoption need families who are supported and encouraged by the government, not targeted with tax-related bias. This ever-expanding IRS scandal shows what the current administration values–an industry of death over families who embrace Life.

Kermit Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” on 3801 Lancaster ©2011 The Radiance Foundation

But once again, prolifers are forced to help pro-abortion apologists grapple with the facts. Despite existing legislative prolife protections in Pennsylvania and prolife protestors outside of their abortion centers, Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania (PPSP) has enjoyed an increasing share of the state’s total abortions, especially in the four counties where its abortion centers are located: Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia.

The majority of abortions in these four counties (where most are committed in poverty-stricken Philadelphia) are carried out by PPSP, which has increased its share of southeast PA’s abortions from 4,790 in 2007 to 10,436 in 2010. That’s a huge increase from 28% to 55% in just three years–all of this while Gosnell was still committing his barbarism at 3801 Lancaster. This isn’t indicative of women being driven away from the largest abortion chain in Philly. No matter the increase or decrease in state abortion statistics, one thing has remained constant with PPSP—its yearly increase in its abortion totals.

According to PPSP’s website, this Planned Parenthood collective has existed in Philadelphia since 1933. Since then, the affiliation has grown to 17 abortion or abortion-referral centers in the 4-county area many of which provide abortions up to nearly 17 weeks gestation (16 weeks, 5 days). Abortions are legal in PA up to 24 weeks. PPSP committed 60% of all abortions in their region in 2011, continuing their upward trend.

PPSP has been around long before Gosnell set up shop, but we’re supposed to believe that poor women had no other choice?

At least two other abortion centers, Philadelphia’s Women’s Center and Drs. Berger & Benjamin, also commit abortions up to 21-22 weeks. There are 65 PA hospitals, (the majority of which are located in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) which are licensed to do abortions.  There’s no shortage of places to go to end the life of an unborn child in southeast PA.

But fear is a potent appeal for the abortion industry and its advocates. As long as they scare keep people away from the truth, they can spin their web of deception, catching all who blindly fall into it. For an industry that boasts of its self-policing, it never accepts responsibility for any of the lethal actions, health violations, or criminal behaviors of its most revered members—its abortionists. So, the game of rhetorical distraction, aided by a more than eager mainstream media, tries to blame Gosnell on the handful of peaceful protestors (many of whom are post-abortive women) who exercise their free speech in an attempt to change the mind of the abortion-vulnerable.

Planned Parenthood spends millions demonizing every effort to protect women and children from the violence of abortion. Their new slogan “CARE. NO MATTER WHAT” should be “SCARE. NO MATTER WHAT.” It’s what they do best.

Scare. No Matter What. That should be Planned Parenthood’s new slogan. It’s not enough that they demonize any effort to protect women and young girls from profit-driven shady abortionists, such as those whom Operation Rescue regularly reports  on here and here and here and…well, you get the point. They have to blame the nonviolent, post-abortive, adoption-advocating, women and men who, contrary to Gloria Steinem’s radical and destructive assertion, don’t see killing their unborn child as a way to “equalize” the sexes.

Dayle Steinberg, PPSP’s President, boasted at a recent Planned Parenthood Spring Gathering (which featured Steinem) that some of their “clients” would “complain to staff about the conditions” at Gosnell’s abortion mill. “We would always encourage them to report it to the Department of Health,” Steinberg explained. Wow! She really admitted that Planned Parenthood knew about Gosnell! And they did nothing…absolutely nothing. But Steinberg’s admission also shows how much of a lie the new narrative is. Gosnell’s former “patients” weren’t scared away from Planned Parenthood’s clinics, but instead, exercised their “choice” of locations…hardly the picture of poverty-driven, option-less desperation.

And if the line of attack that prolifers “scaring women” into the arms of Gosnell weren’t enough, the unapologetic abortion crowd also blames the evil Hyde Amendment for somehow compelling women to subject themselves to the horrors at 38^th and Lancaster. So, in the inherently contradictory world of “pro-choice” activism, abortion is both a private matter and a public tax (hence the vilification of Hyde protections). Never mind the fact that neither the PA Department of Health, nor the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, provides any information on the race or socio-economic status of women seeking abortions in the city of Philadelphia. (The Philadelphia Department of Public Health doesn’t record any abortion data.) That doesn’t stop abortion activists from making up stuff and insisting that poor women (code for mostly black women) are demanding to have taxpayers pay to abort their children. This is the talking point repeated with new fervor to defend and deflect.

Steinberg (who receives a hefty $183k salary) declared such nonsense back in 2011 when Gosnell was first exposed: “This care should include Medicaid coverage for abortion services, which would allow women without financial means to schedule appointments at facilities that are clean and professional and offer the highest quality services.”

Click image to download Sanger’s “The Pivot of Civilization”

Planned Parenthood wants to pat itself on the back because in its abortion centers (well, except that squalid Delaware clinic that was just shut down), all mutilated human body parts, blood, and other bodily fluids are tidied up nicely because their annual $524.4 million taxpayer funding can pay for the staff and the equipment to cleanly kill its 333,964 human victims per year. And isn’t half a billion more than enough to cover the abortions of those women PPFA and PPSP consider “low-income” and “in-need”? Of course not. The organization birthed in eugenic racism and antipathy toward the disabled and disenfranchised has always hated “charity.” It’s in their DNA, from their founder Margaret Sanger who considered true charity (in Chapter Five of her self-penned Pivot of Civilization) the “symptom of a malignant 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.”

Steinberg, and her abortion cohorts don’t get it. Back in January of this year, the PPSP abortion chain president claimed: “During the most recent legislative session in Harrisburg, lawmakers passed and Gov. Corbett signed legislation to impose politically motivated regulations on abortion centers.”

If killing a woman, severing the spines of 7 babies born alive (at least the ones that were known before Gosnell’s trial), and reproductively harming countless other women is what she considers “politically motivated” then so be it. More “politically motivated” acts should rise up to stop such human atrocities. “Pro-choice” activists are content with death committed in the name of abortion, harm done in the name of medicine, and blame redirected when they can’t defend one of their own.

So the Associated Press, along with HuffPo and other mainstream media outlets are claiming that the poor women who went to the “elegant man” (aka Gosnell) had no choice. They bemoan that Gosnell’s workers had “few options” (because most of Philly’s employed choose jobs where they brutally cut people’s spinal cords and toss around their lifeless bodies like play objects). And they accuse the prolife movement, who has always pushed for abortion clinic regulations and enforcement, of somehow creating Gosnell’s situation. NARAL lamented Gosnell was a “peek into the world before Roe”. No. It’s a peek into the world of limitless abortion (as championed by NARAL, Planned Parenthood, NOW, and other rabidly pro-abortion groups), with no regard for the lives of women and children.

Ryan Bomberger, Dr. Alveda King, Day Gardner and members of the National Black Prolife Coalition gather outside of Gosnell’s clinic in February 2011 to mourn the loss of lives at the “House of Horrors”.

Amanda Marcotte, pro-abortion apologist who writes for Slate.com and the pathologically dishonest RHRealityCheck.com, writes how simple the reason for Gosnell is: “poverty, plus lack of access due to anti-choice activism.”

What a poor excuse. No, really. What a pathetically poor excuse. Philadelphia, which doesn’t record or publish any data on abortion in its city, has no idea who is seeking abortions. In other states/cities that actually track this vital data (like Georgia), college students in attempts to hide who they are, often list themselves as poor or needing financial aid when seeking abortions, which grossly exaggerates the genuine “poverty” status of those having abortions. Even if every patient who went to Gosnell were poor, do we know the repeat abortion rate of his victims? Do we know if they remained trapped in the cycle of poverty? Do we know how many were on Medicaid? Marcotte and her abortion cohorts can make up stuff all they want, but they can’t conjure a reality where abortion magically cures poverty or strengthens women shackled by circumstances unimproved by killing the life within them.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, women (ages 18-64) are more impoverished today at 15.5% than they were in 1973 where poverty for that same demographic hit its lowest point since the 60s—10%. Black women have abortions up to 6 times the rate of white women (as in NYC); there’s no lack of access. According to the PA Department of Health (h/t to the Pennsylvania ProLife Federation), there were 65 licensed hospitals that performed abortions and 24 abortion clinics (reportedly down to 17 due to better legislative protections passed in 2013) that performed 36,280 abortions as of December 30, 2011—hardly a lack of access. There is a lack of education of life-sustaining healthcare that is available to women through pregnancy care centers that don’t charge women a dime for any of their pregnancy services. There are even over 4,000 Title X funded clinics (excluding all Planned Parenthood abortion centers) that provide reproductive healthcare on a sliding scale basis for those who truly cannot pay; they just don’t perform abortions.

Location of Philly Abortion Clinics through Dec 2011. Darker areas represent U.S. Census Bureau population data w/ concentration of selected demographic. We’ve selected Black Race to show how most abortion mills are located in majority black neighborhoods.

So according to Marcotte, Planned Parenthood (which touts itself as the savior of poor, and especially black women) priced itself out of consideration of these desperate women. I mean, they only had 7 other surgical abortion clinics in Philly (the majority of which are located in predominantly black neighborhoods as seen in the embedded map…the darker the color, the more concentration of the selected demographic—black race in this case–through demographic tool, SocialExplorer.com) in addition to hospitals that commit abortions. If that weren’t enough, one could simply travel a few minutes across the Ben Franklin Bridge to Camden for more abortion mills. It’s not enough to have a cornucopia of abortion facilities around. Abortion activists demand more governmental dependence. So Marcotte and her allies throw the Hyde Amendment into the picture. Not only has the federal government shredded the two-parent (married) family unit and caused complete financial dependence on a failed bureaucratic system, now the government needs to also add to the broken communities it has created with forced taxpayer funding of more…brokenness. So the blame for Gosnell’s butchery is on evil prolifers who see value in every human life and the beauty of freedom that embracing responsibility can provide.

But the Gosnell narrative gets better.

Even Planned Parenthood (the organization that supports partial birth abortion and infanticide) finally broke its silence Friday, during the brilliant and relentless #Gosnell Tweetfest (WhoIsGosnell.com), to condemn the Gosnell case as “appalling” in a tweet. But wait. Wasn’t it appalling to allow Tonya Reaves to bleed to death, from a botched abortion, for 5.5 hours and never call 911? Planned Parenthood apparently doesn’t think so. But it was one of their own (still unnamed) abortionists in their own Chicago clinic. Oh, the sense of warped moral superiority.

But like most pro-abortion arguments, Planned Parenthood’s words drip with the blood of their own actions. There is no real outrage from the nation’s largest abortion chain whose own facility in Delaware was just shut down because of its squalid conditions, thanks to two whistle-blowing’ nurses. Their tweet was a PR stunt. They know that mainstream media won’t connect the simple dots: Planned Parenthood’s own lobbyist promoting infanticide while PPFA leads the fight for New York’s Reproductive Health Act (which demands the elimination of all clinic regulations) and the fact that it only took two years to publicly condemn an abortionist who killed women and murdered children born alive. The Reproductive Health Act, by the way, is a radical bill that will classify abortion as a “human right”, strip it from the state’s criminal codes regarding homicide, shield abortionists who kill women as a result of botched abortions, and prevent any current and all future attempts to regulate abortion clinics. Joined by the NAACP NY State Conference, Ms. Foundation, NARAL Prochoice America and other pro-abortion groups, Planned Parenthood will ensure the reduction of women to sub-human status in clinics, like Gosnell’s, that are far more frequent than lazy mainstream media cares to investigate.

In fact, mainstream media doesn’t talk about another seedy Philly abortionist, Soleiman M. Soli, who closed his doors (in November 2010) instead of fighting a newly invigorated PA Department of Health after the Gosnell discovery.  As reported by The Inquirer back in March 2011 (and covered by LifeNews.com) Soli had medications in his clinic that were expired for over 30 years, no recovery room, no admitting privileges at an area hospital, stored aborted baby parts in exam-room cabinets and the list went on and on. Unsurprisingly, the same Board of Medicine that chose to ignore Kermit Gosnell’s butchery of poor black women in his 1972 supercoil illegal abortion experiment gone awry turned their backs on Soli’s repeated violations, too. Even as an OB/GYN he was embroiled in numerous lawsuits for harming women in his care, one case ending in a $35 million settlement. Gosnell was, and is not, alone in preying on women. Where were the abortion activists when women were being harmed by Soli for three decades? Silent and complicit.

Pennsylvania is my home state.  It’s sad to see how Philadelphia is plagued by increasing high poverty (over 25%), high crime rates, high drug usage, high abortion rates, epidemic fatherlessness and plenty of unbrotherly love. But there is still beauty and hope in the city where America began, the city that holds the symbol of the promise of Liberty. Inscribed on that bell-shaped piece of history in Independence Hall are the words from Leviticus 25:10: “Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” It’s hard to speak of American history and liberty without invoking Patrick Henry, famous for his profound oratory skills and eloquence. He famously declared “give me Liberty or give me death.” He fought for the freedom of some but, as a slave owner, struggled with his own inflicted injustice. As he described in a letter to a Quaker friend, it was financial convenience that prevented him from freeing his slaves despite the dehumanizing institution of slavery.

And today, the abortion industry speaks of the equality of some while crushing the equality of others. They can’t proclaim liberty through the land or throughout Philadelphia. They, too, cannot separate from the financial benefit of the injustice they daily inflict through the dehumanizing institution of abortion.

So, no more poor excuses. Either the human right to life exists for all, or it exists for none. Either we promote liberty, or we promote death. We can’t promote both, simultaneously, while blood of the innocent stains our nation’s soul.

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It is in our nature to mourn the loss of life. How much more tragic when the life of a mother is taken at the same time her child is ripped from her womb?

Planned Parenthood’s botched abortion, in a state where liberals ferociously defend the barbaric act, has resulted in an empty apology from the world’s largest billion-dollar abortion chain. Tonya Reaves and her unborn child will become nameless statistics that will inevitably be erased from the abortion industry’s collective memory.

Operation Rescue is the only organization detailing the state-by-state violent aftermath of abortion and the lives that are taken. They uncover what our mainstream media is too lazy and too opposed to doing — informing the public. Operation Rescue’s Cheryl Sullenger rightfully calls out Obama, who has become a male cheerleader for Planned Parenthood, for not using his Trayvon tactic of identity. “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayon” were the words spoken by Obama as he inserted himself, quite racially, into that tragic and needless shooting. But where is Obama in this tragedy? Isn’t Tonya more reflective of the daughters that he actually has of which he complained should not be “punished with a baby”?

But, apparently, it’s ok for this woman to be punished with death, leaving her 1 year old son orphaned, and simply rule it as an accident. Whoops. We’re sorry. Our bad.

Where are the racialists now?

Ryan Bomberger, Dr. Alveda King, Dr. Johnny & Pat Hunter, Day Gardner, Pastor Stephen Broden, and Rev. Arnold Culbreath stand outside of Gosnell’s clinic to mourn the loss of life and the women maimed by the Philly butcher abortionist who was charged with 8 counts of murder.

Silent. Because in the bizarre world of a liberal, racism exists everywhere but in the only organization that exists to profit through induced death on a daily basis and get away with it. Planned Parenthood’s billion-dollar population control effortS, undeterred even by a bad economy, are exposed in Maafa21 and The Radiance Foundation’s TooManyAborted.com campaigns. Abortion is the number one killer of black Americans, and now, the Reaves family is directly touched by this alarming and avoidable reality.

This isn’t the first time, or the last, that black women in Chicago will be harmed by Planned Parenthood. The abortion giant’s “apology” letter accepted no blame, of course, but instead touted the “safety” of an action that always leaves someone dead. They used the same rhetoric when, in pre-Roe 1972, they funded abortionist Harvey Karman’s work with the disastrous super coil abortion method. Then, as now, women’s lives didn’t matter; making a killing was, and is, the goal. In that pursuit, Karman (who was not a trained physician but a psychologist who performed illegal abortions) partnered with the now infamous abortionist Kermit Gosnell to experiment on 15 black, low-income women from Chicago. They bussed these pregnant women, all in their second trimester, to Philadelphia to film the super coil abortion method.

Nine of the thirteen women were seriously harmed, requiring hospitalization; one woman had to have an emergency hysterectomy. The CDC banned the technique.

Neither Karman nor Gosnell was ever punished for their crimes. Arlen Specter was the Pennsylvania Attorney General, by the way. And we all know how Gosnell went on to be a stellar citizen and caring medical doctor.

Planned Parenthood has scrubbed the super coil fiasco from their history, and so have abortion activists and sympathizers. Michelle Goldberg, a dishonest pro-abortion author and Newsweek columnist who compared Ann Romney to Hitler for praising motherhood, conveniently leaves out these butchered women’s story in a glowing tribute to Harvey Karman. Just as with Sanger, the crusade is more important than human lives, especially those of women. In 1955, prior to the 1972 experiment, Karman was found guilty of killing a woman in a botched illegal abortion. He spent an entire two years in jail and was freed. Oh, but he did work at Head Start. Leave it to a liberal like Goldberg to tout a murderer’s community involvement.

Even NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, which claims to “contribute toward the National Institutes of Health mission of uncovering new knowledge” deliberately covers up facts in its abstract of this heinous “super coil” experiment by referring to Harvey Karman as a physician, failing to mention that both Karman and Gosnell were performing illegal abortions or mentioning that the 15 women were low-income black women. This reminds me of an article, The Visible Invisibles, that my friend and National Black Prolife Coalition colleague, Catherine Davis, wrote about the media’s coverage of NYC’s shocking abortion statistics, which omitted any data pertaining to the black community.

The abortion industry gets away with murder every day. In Illinois, the Chicago Tribune unearthed massive corruption and unreported abortions, abortion complications, and abortion-related deaths back in 2011.

Tonya Reaves will be yet another swept under the blood-stained rug of history, unless the most corrupt taxpayer funded organization—Planned Parenthood—is finally held responsible for their “safe” actions and defunded.

Here is a tale of two women with amazingly similar beginnings. I’ll allow history to speak for itself so you can see where their chosen journeys have brought them.

My mother, Andrea Bomberger, grew up poor. She had an alcoholic father who was verbally and emotionally abusive to her mother. The marriage was dysfunctional, to say the least, and it put a young girl in a situation of temporary abandonment at the age of five. While her parents split, Andrea was placed in a faith-based home for children called Christ’s Home in Paradise. For nearly a year as her parents tried to sort out their tumultuous relationship, she became, in essence, an orphan. Although Andrea’s parents would visit her separately, at least she had visitors. There was one girl in particular who suffered with physical deformities and for the entire duration never had one visitor. She never had anyone to hug, hold, or tell her that she was loved.

It was in that singular year of separation from home and the security of parents that Andrea found security and peace in a different source—God. She recalls giving her life to the Lord and promising, after witnessing the heartbreak of that sweet little girl who was all alone, that she would be a mommy for those who didn’t have one. Despite the brokenness that surrounded her, my mom’s decision to invite Christ into her life at such a young age kept her hopeful and compassionate. My mom’s parents eventually made their divorce final. Her mom clung to faith in God, which served as a powerful influence in Andrea’s life. But her father’s disdain for both religion and her mother drove him to be unfaithful and eventually into the arms of his wife’s best friend.

That devastation didn’t break my mother. It made her stronger. Her heart for adoption was shared by the man she fell in love with –a kind, fun loving, hard-working father who loves Jesus. After having three biological children, Andrea continued to pursue the promise she had made to God as a little girl in the Children’s home.

That’s when I entered the picture–a biracial baby, conceived in rape, and blessed to be my parents first adopted child.

My mom’s father, who had never exhibited any racist behavior before, lashed out at the idea of transracially adopting a black

Andrea Bomberger holds her first adopted child, Ryan, for the first time.

child. “You’re going to ruin your family,” he told her with words laced with shocking racism. “Black people can’t think.” It was the last straw for a bitter man who perceived his daughter as having chosen her mother over him. He wanted nothing to do with this family. My mother, essentially, lost a father while gaining a son. Her passion to love the “unwanted” was stronger than her desire to be loved by an absent father. Ten adopted children, mostly biracial, with backgrounds as varied as the hue of our skin, didn’t ruin the Bomberger family. All fifteen of us made a unique family, full of love, full of triumph over brokenness, full of Purpose. My mother’s heart for the broken can be seen in my siblings’ and my lives—shattering the myth of the “unwanted” through adoption, caring for those in need, and living out God’s love in quiet yet potent ways.

Margaret Sanger also grew up poor. Her father was an abusive alcoholic who despised religion and failed to provide for his family. Her mother, a devout Catholic, did all she could do to impart faith to her children. She, tragically, died at 50 due to tuberculosis. Sanger had a choice to make. But instead of allowing faith to infuse her life and produce compassion, she declared motherhood was bondage, blamed her mother’s death on forced pregnancy and launched a Birth Control crusade that showed nothing but animosity toward religion.

Of course, today, most of Sanger’s sycophantic advocates try to whitewash her entire history, but her own words and irrefutable documentation reveal the indisputable truth: Sanger saw misery in human existence and the only way to address this was to eliminate humans. Birth control was merely a euphemism for “race control” or “population control”. Steeped in eugenic racism (as evidenced by a multitude of Sanger’s writings) birth control’s main aim was “nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defective or of those who will become defective.” This declaration in her book, Women and the New Race (Chapter 18) is one of hundreds of examples from Sanger that birth control had nothing to do with women’s rights or providing actual solutions to poverty. It was about crushing unseen Purpose.

Sanger birthed the world’s largest abortion empire, Planned Parenthood. Human life, to her, wasn’t something to be celebrated or seen as full of potential to conquer the odds—it was something to be controlled, despised, and destroyed if it didn’t fit within her prescribed parameters.

Her credo, as found in her manifesto, Woman Rebel, was “The Right to be Lazy. The Right to be an Unmarried Mother. The Right to Destroy. The Right to Create. The Right to Live and the Right to Love.” She died, according to some accounts, addicted to Demerol and alcohol. Few attended her funeral. She was not an empowered woman, but one who was a slave to sexual addiction, continuous marital infidelity, and an elitist mindset that placed her above all others. Though she boasted on the masthead of her magazine, Woman Rebel, “No Gods; No Masters!” she became her own god, shackled by a lifetime of lies, eugenic racism, frequent abandonment of her children, and a lonely passing from this world.

The difference between my mother and Margaret Sanger is simple: God. My mother’s life could have resulted in a path that saw human existence mired in misery. Instead, she saw beautiful Possibility. She didn’t see others as defective but deserving. She didn’t see marriage as a funding source to launch a cause, but a source of security and devoted love to unleash Purpose.

The Bomberger Family, in 1983, with all 13 children (10 adopted).

My mother’s life may not be immortalized in history books, but she has made history. She personifies strength, grace, wisdom, and most importantly, love. She (and my father, of course) have rewritten the narrative given to ten children who were wrongly thought to be “unwanted” and “unloved.” Margaret Sanger personified brokenness—a woman who couldn’t see the pieces she was making of millions of lives. Sanger thought her Birth Control Crusade would achieve perfection through destruction. My mom never claimed to want or be perfection, but she was the perfect one for ten adopted children whose lives are still unfolding, whose families are still growing, whose dreams are still coming true, and whose actions of love and compassion will be felt for generations.

MorningStar Choices – Pregnancy Care Center (www.morningstarchoices.org)
Life Choices Clinic – Pregnancy Care Center (www.lifechoicesclinic.org)
Bethany Christian Services – Adoption Agency (www.bethany.org/harrisburg)
40 Days for Life – Sidewalk Counseling/Prayer (www.40DaysForLife.org)

NATIONAL RESOURCES:

OptionLine – Pregnancy Help Line (www.optionline.org)
Pregnancy Decision Line – Pregnancy Help Line (www.pregnancydecisionline.org)
National Help Line – Pregnancy / Post-Abortive Help Line  (www.nationalhelpline.org)
Hope After Abortion – Post-Abortive Help Resource (www.hopeafterabortion.org)
ImPregnant.org – Pregnancy Help Line/Adoption Resource (www.impregnant.org)
Adoption Journey – Adoption Help Resource (www.adoptionjourney.org)
National Fatherhood Initiative – Fatherhood Support/Training/Resource (www.fatherhood.org)

Ryan and Bethany Bomberger, both graduates of Messiah College, were recently awarded the 2012 Christian Stewardship Alumni Award from the top-rated college. Ryan, a native of Lancaster County, PA, will be returning to his alma mater to address the issue of abortion in the context of “Social Justice”. The unique multimedia presentation, entitled “The Social Injustice of Abortion” takes an unconventional approach to the human rights issue, combining the deeply personal with the alarming evidential. “The Social Injustice of Abortion” provides a deep and substantive look at the abortion issue with many surprises. The audience will see how this human rights issue, as the graphics of the event suggest, inextricably tied to other crucial issues of justice.

Various resources from The Radiance Foundation’s TooManyAborted.com awareness campaign will be made available.

Ryan’s sense of true justice stems from being adopted into a multi-racial family of 15, where 10 of the children were adopted as newborns or from the foster care system. Adopted and loved, Ryan flourished in emotionally, academically, creatively and spiritually. He witnessed, throughout his life, the servant leadership of his parents who regularly engaged their community with compassionate (mostly anonymous) assistance to those in need. So, surrounded by faith-driven examples, Ryan’s passion for the broken began at a young age.

As co-founder of The Radiance Foundation, a life-affirming educational non-profit that he began with his wife, Bethany, he loves challenging the status quo by illuminating the truth.

The original media created for each of The Radiance Foundation’s events always receive high praise. More importantly, the creative approach has helped to reshape people’s hearts and minds on a variety of issues.

The Radiance Foundation is honored to be able to address Messiah students in this event (approved as an alternate chapel) and the general public who is welcome to join in the conversation. They are grateful to the Messiah College Right to Life Club (MCRTLC) for the invitation to explore this civil rights issue and provide a forum where questions can be asked in a great learning environment. The Q&A portion will be moderated by Professor James LaGrand.

Life-affirming organizations, who daily address this justice issue, will be on-hand to provide information about their work and how students can move from awareness to action.

Joseph O’Donnell, an officer of MCRTLC, is available for any students who may have questions about the event. He can be reached at jo1023@messiah.edu.

The Radiance Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Feedback or questions? Call 1-877-517-4463 or contact online here.

***UPDATE 05/15/13. NAACP CEO & President, Benjamin Todd Jealous, responds to our lawsuit claiming: “On the issue of abortion, NAACP has not supported abortion but rather supports a woman’s right to choose.” Download DECLARATION OF BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS here.

***UPDATE 04/16/13: The NAACP has countersued The Radiance Foundation and Ryan Bomberger. See/Download CounterClaim at bottom of page.

Washington (Feb 6, 2013)  The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is falsely accusing The Radiance Foundation and its chief creative officer, Ryan Bomberger of “trademark infringement” over an ad campaign that exposes the NAACP’s pro-abortion position.

In response, Radiance and Bomberger, who is black, has asked a federal court to declare that the First Amendment protects their exercise of free speech and that their speech does not infringe on any of the NAACP’s trademarks or other rights. The lawsuit does not seek any damages.

Bomberger has written for several years about the NAACP’s pro-abortion actions, satirically referring to the organization as the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People.”

“It’s ironic that the nation’s oldest civil rights group is threatening to sue a black man for exercising his most basic civil right—the freedom of speech,” said Bomberger. “This threat of legal action from the NAACP is nothing more than a multi-million dollar organization’s attempt to bully someone who’s simply telling the truth. Our inner-cities are crumbling, two-parent married families barely exist, 72.3 percent of our children are born into homes without fathers, and the NAACP wants to silence me for pointing out its support of abortion.”

Planned Parenthood co-sponsors the NAACP’s annual conventions, and the NAACP has shown its support of the nation’s largest abortion chain by frequently defending it.

Former NAACP President Julian Bond once spoke at a dinner for NARAL and praised the fact that black women have high abortion rates.

Sixty percent of viable black pregnancies are aborted in New York City, the home of NARAL and Planned Parenthood. Statistics show that more black babies are aborted in New York City than are born alive: 1,489 black babies are aborted for every 1,000 born alive.

To educate the public, Bomberger, an adoptee and adoptive father, created the www.TooManyAborted.com abortion awareness campaign. The public ad campaign was the first to expose the eugenic racism that gave birth to Planned Parenthood and the tragic alliance that exists between the nation’s oldest civil rights group and the nation’s abortion giant.

Alliance Defending Freedom allied attorney Charles M. Allen with the Glen Allen, Va. firm Goodman, Allen & Filetti PLLC filed Friday in U.S. District Court in The Radiance Foundation v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division.

“The Radiance Foundation has no intentions of being silenced by those who disagree with the facts,” Bomberger declares.

For media inquiries, please call 1-877-517-4463 or email media@theradiancefoundation.org.

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Click here to download the NAACP’s Answer and CounterClaim denying that the NAACP is pro-abortion.

Fannie Lou (Townshend) Hamer was born into poverty in 1917 (the youngest of 20 children), which according to Planned Parenthood’s philosophy, was a circumstance worthy of eliminating her. Since the age of 6, she worked in the cotton fields with her sharecropping family and was forced to leave school at the age of 12.

But Fannie Lou Hamer, like many other remarkable figures in American history, defied the disproven narrative that poverty cannot birth greatness. She and her husband, Perry “Pap” Hamer, tirelessly toiled on a Mississippi plantation. Slavery just in a legally different form, he worked in the fields while she, armed with the ability to read and write, worked in the big House. In 1962, her life took an even more drastic turn.

She was diagnosed with a small uterine tumor, but instead of simply removing it, the doctor performed a hysterectomy without her consent. Pro-abortion activists often refer to Hamer’s ordeal as “Mississippi Appendectomies”, a term which Hamer coined. These unjust acts were done to thousands of black women across the country, like North Carolinian Elaine Riddick. But abortion activists don’t mention those sterilizations were heavily pushed, and performed by, Planned Parenthood, or that Fannie Lou Hamer was passionately pro-life. This traumatic experience was the catalyst for her social activism, to fight the incredible injustice that black Americans faced, daily, in America.

She fought for the right of black Americans to vote, risking her very life as she survived violent attacks for her public crusade for rights guaranteed by the Constitution. She never gave up. Hamer wanted to provide a better world for black children who were

constantly the target of racist efforts that forced birth control and other eugenic social policies masquerading as anti-poverty measures. In fact, Hamer was quoted as saying, during a White House Conference on Hunger (renamed the Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health): “I didn’t come to talk about birth control. I came here to get some food to feed poor, hungry people. Where are they carrying on that kind of talk?”

Hamer is famous (among many things) for her quote: “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

Ethyl Payne, a journalist for the Afro American, described Hamer as a “passionate believer in the right to life” in a March 1980 column. Payne reported that the freedom fighter “spoke out strongly against abortion as a means of genocide of blacks.”

According to black journalist, Samuel F. Yette (who was fired by Newsweek for penning his book, “The Choice” which detailed Nixon’s eugenics and population control tactics): “Mrs. Hamer is a symbol of what was good about the 1960s. She symbolized the will of many not merely to illuminate the society’s worst contradictions, but also to erase them.”

Fannie Lou Hamer was a prolife feminist who spoke with passion born of a life of hardships. She connected with people, black and white. As a victim of eugenic sterilization, racial discrimination, and a Democrat party that refused to racially integrate (hence her speech at the 1964 DNC Credentials Committee to demand black representation at the Convention), she spoke out against injustice leaving an indelible mark on the conscience of a nation. She was truly fearless.

She used to sing “This Little Light of Mine” often. It was her anthem. She let her light shine outside and inside her home. Fannie Lou and “Pap” Hamer were adoptive parents who, due to the tragic loss of their adopted daughter Dorothy Jean and injuries sustained in war by their son-in-law, adopted their own grandchildren.

After her passing black journalist, Samuel F. Yette (who was fired by Newsweek for penning his book, “The Choice” which detailed Nixon’s eugenics and population control tactics) wrote that “Fannie Lou Hamer tried to feed and educate the children, to guard life and enhance its nobility.”

1980 article from the Afro American newspaper praising the pro-life, anti-poverty, pro-family work of Fannie Lou Hamer.

Pro-life activism is a continuum. Forget the favorite pro-abortion baseless mantra that we “don’t care about children once they’re born.” We care about life, no matter the stage, from conception until natural death. We may not agree with everyone on how that help is given, but all the evidence shows the extensive nature of how pro-life, pro-family, pro-restoration organizations and the Church care for the poor, the broken and those in need. History reminds us that when we fail to care for the least of these and deem them as “unwanted” or a “burden” (whether born or unborn), only violence and destruction follow.

Forty years of Roe have eliminated over 55 million possibilities. They’re gone. These are millions who could’ve helped breathe Life into the hopelessness and despair that still shackles urban communities. More than 15 million black lives, possible freedom fighters like Hamer, have been erased by abortion from the annals of history. But we will not forget them.

As Hamer once proclaimed: “Nobody’s free until everyone’s free.”

Here’s to a pro-life generation that is rising up, realizing that the best way to celebrate Black History is to fight to protect our very future—our Posterity.