MLK and the Injustice of Abortion
Today, we honor a man whose words agitated, illuminated, inspired and liberated millions. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights warrior with weapons, not of blade or bullet, but of ideas. In 2012 those ideas are spoken by many, yet followed by few. We’re still obsessed with the hue of our skin, while ignoring the more valuable substance that lies within. Some call it “judging a book by its cover”. We’ve all done it, many times to our own embarrassment.
WE’VE BEEN GUTTMACHER’D!
By Ryan Scott Bomberger, The Radiance Foundation
Anytime journalists feel the need to reinforce unexamined Planned Parenthood statements, they pull the Guttmacher card. The Guttmacher Institute, founded by former Planned Parenthood President and former Vice President of the American Eugenics Society, Alan F. Guttmacher, is continually lavished with misleading credentials by mainstream media. NPR and the Washington Post call it a “nonpartisan research group”. ABC and CNN refer to Guttmacher’s abortion activist staff as “researchers”. USA Today calls the public policy organization a “non-profit group that studies reproductive and sexual health”.
GSU PROTESTERS’ EPIC FAIL
CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO WATCH FAILED & UNINFORMED PROTEST
As a public speaker, I have spoken to hundreds of thousands of people over the past few years in various forums: major conferences, churches, social services events, high schools, and colleges. In all but the last venue, audiences may not always agree, but are willing to hear a perspective that may differ from their own. There’s no place like an environment of higher learning…that’s continually threatened by non-liberal ideology. Many college campuses cultivate students that fear being exposed to different points of view. In their myopia, free speech must be crushed as catchy mantras replace critical thinking. Read more
NPR LIES ABOUT CENSORING PROLIFE VIEWS
NPR DEFENDS BIAS WITH MORE BIAS
On July 18th, NPR’s Michel Martin invited Reverend Carlton Veazey and me to debate the issue of abortion in the black community on “Tell Me More”. I’m beginning to believe a name revision is in order: “Tell Me More Lies.”
NPR has now officially, and dishonestly, disputed the charges of censorship and liberal bias by posting an article full of…liberal bias. They could’ve posted the unedited audio of the interview, but such raw honesty is apparently too much for NPR to handle. The charade of fairness, no matter whom they need to defame, is a far loftier virtue for them than truth. A producer originally told me the interview, for the show, would be a duration of 15 minutes. That changed after the interview.
NPR BIAS STRIKES AGAIN
CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO OF SHOW.
NPR shows, yet again, why more of the American public does not trust them to present issues in a fair way. Today, on Michel Martin’s Tell Me More, the bias resulted in heavy editing of my comments about Title X funded clinics (they strangely cut out the words Title X and the host’s misunderstanding that they were religious organizations). They also eliminated nearly my entire ending statements, where I called out Rev. Veazey for earning a $183K annual salary from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice for 5 hours/week of work! It’s in his organization’s own 990 filed with the IRS (see embedded image). I was showing how abortion is all about money, and his salary was proof of that. NPR moved to protect him, though, and struck the comments entirely.
ABORTION ACTIVISTS FAIL TO BRING DOWN BILLBOARDS & ABORTION RATES
Pro-abortion groups in Oakland, California, just can’t seem to accept that they’ve failed. Despite shamefully biased and blatantly dishonest press from local TV news (CBS-5 and ABC-7) and area newspapers (Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle) none of their absurd cries of racism 
could remove the “Black & Beautiful: TooManyAborted.com” billboards.
Contrary to their false claims, the billboards were not removed due to their opposition; they were removed because of expiration. The contract for the billboards (see embedded image) expired on July 10th; so, naturally, the billboards are coming down as new clients and advertising go up. That hasn’t stopped groups like Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ) and RH Reality Check (which needs its own reality check) from claiming they brought them down.
They apparently didn’t get the memo from CBS Outdoor’s Jeff McCuen who stated clearly in an email to ACRJ:
CBS5′s BLATANT ATTACK
CBS5 (San Francisco) launches blatant attack on The Radiance Foundation and the Issues4Life Foundation and our “Black & Beautiful” billboards
Prolife advocates often cringe at mainstream media coverage; it’s hardly ever accurate and rarely ever fair or balanced. With our “Black & Beautiful” billboards in Oakland, CA, one station rose above the rest in their blatant advocacy for abortion–CBS 5. They’ve pulled the first video below from their website after I tweeted (@lifehaspurpose) the following:
They tweeted, in response:
Here’s the “news” piece from CBS5 that was yanked after my tweet above:
Sadly, it doesn’t end there. There was a second “news” piece produced by CBS5 and their (apparently pro-abortion) reporter Robert Lyles. The defamatory coverage is so blatantly biased and untrue, I had to write to the station to criticize their violation of the public’s trust:
Below is the email that was positively responded to by the VP of News Operations at the station who is awaiting a response from the reporter and his supervisor as to the excessively false content in the piece:
Dear CBS5,
Your recent broadcast of our “Black & Beautiful” campaign should have been labeled as an Editorial as it was clearly an attempt to defame and demonize The Radiance Foundation and our effort to raise awareness about the epidemic of abortion in the black community and advocate life-affirming options such as adoption.
Objective journalism obviously is an anomaly these days. Reporter Robert Lyles’ piece on our “Black & Beautiful” billboard campaign was the most blatantly biased and dishonest local tv news piece we’ve seen to date. Of course Lyles never mentioned the prolife/pro-adoption themed campaign was created by a black individual (who is an adoptee and an adoptive father) nor the national coalition of African-Americans who’ve championed it since its inception in early 2010. That would require some legwork, like actually going to the website, TooManyAborted.com, or contacting The Radiance Foundation, which Lyles never bothered to do. Here is some copy from your “Black & Beautiful” coverage that illuminates the shameful reporting:
>>>”And some say…it’s a little racist…”
You mean the pro-abortion critics who you’ve conveniently not supered in the piece, namely the first activist soundbite? Alicia Walters (Trust Black Women Partnership) was supered in other interviews (other stations). Their national strategy is to call any campaign that illuminates the disproportionate impact on abortion, racist.
>>>What were these “racist tactics”?
Declaring that black children are beautiful and too many are aborted? Didn’t CBS5 think that charges of racism should be handled responsibly? A call to The Radiance Foundation would have confirmed that this is an African-American led effort. But the charge of racism is easy and lazy.
>>>”And slight changes to that website address have popped up in other U.S. cities…”
This is just a flat-out lie. The website, TooManyAborted.com, is the same on EVERY billboard that we’ve launched. Lyles deliberately and falsely attaches our campaign to a completely different effort through Heroic Media (www.thatsabortion.com). They’re not related to The Radiance Foundation in any way.
>>>“Critics say b/c of outrage back east, the message has switched from comparing black fetuses to slaves to the kinder gentler message of black and beautiful.”
Could this be any lazier or untrue? Our “Juneteenth” campaign, launched in Atlanta at the same time as our Oakland campaign, hasn’t caused outrage to switch our message, which does NOT compare black unborn children to slaves. Our “Juneteenth” campaign shows how inextricably tied abortion and slavery are, mainly through the consistent thread of eugenics. The reporter would know this by doing any actual research. www.toomanyaborted.com/juneteenth
>>>”The ads are backed by a Southern Christian group called Radiance.”
We’re not a “southern group”, and our full name is on the billboard: The Radiance Foundation. We assume that “Christian” was added in there to be derogatory [to bolster the narrative that 'Christian' is somehow synonymous with 'racist']
>>>NONE of our billboards have ever been taken down. We’ve placed hundreds of billboards throughout the country and not a single one has been removed. Our website contains irrefutable federal stats and historical documentation, endorsed by African-American leaders nationwide. This is why our campaigns have not been removed by those who are clearly anti-free speech.
We find it disgraceful that Robert Lyles and CBS5 would allow such deliberately false reporting. I think we can all agree that the role of the news media is to present the facts, and allow people to decide for themselves. CBS5′ reporting failed miserably in both broadcasts and was simply irresponsible.
Sincerely,
Ryan Bomberger
Chief Creative Officer
The Radiance Foundation
HONORED TO BE DENOUNCED BY ACLU
In response to the ACLU’s official clueless denunciation of our “Juneteenth” campaign, we’ve written this Open Letter to Ms. Chara Fisher Jackson in order to educate her and other abortion apologists.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ACLU
by Ryan Bomberger, The Radiance Foundation
Dear Ms. Chara Fisher Jackson,
You prove that those who practice “law” are just as adept as obscuring the truth. First and foremost, this campaign is created and championed by black Americans from across the country, from every background, every profession–many of whom are post-abortive black women, adoptive parents, and community leaders. So you can throw all of that “attacking black women” talking point away. By the way, as much as liberals like to kick the man to the periphery, biology cannot be changed. A man should be equally as responsible for a child in and out of the womb.
When is it demeaning to awaken a community to the destructive issues that are plaguing it? I guess you denounced Bill Cosby, too, years ago for daring to discuss the issue of fatherlessness, which by the way, is at a devastating 72.3%. But apparently, that’s just fine with the illustrious ACLU who will defend anything liberal at the expense of honest and open discussion about real problems. Instead, you conjure up dishonest circumstances to justify the epidemic of abortion in the black community, feigning outrage over a simple contention–that there are too many aborted. Apparently, the ACLU believes not enough are aborted.
You give lip service to “choice” but the institution you defend, Planned Parenthood’s obviously pushes one “choice”–abortion. They abort 340 babies for every 1 adoption referral, aborting 332,278 innocent lives according to their own latest Annual Report. “Choice” as you and other abortion allies tout it, is a complete sham. I am adopted AND an adoptive father, and like many prolife individuals like me, am very involved in improving the lives of children AFTER they are born. That’s another pathetic liberal talking point you can eject.
Let’s talk some facts here that seem too inconvenient to address. Poverty has only increased since abortion was legalized. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, poverty had hit its lowest point since the 60s’ War on Poverty in 1973, but only increased ever since. In the latest year reported (in 2009) more people are impoverished than ever recorded in the 51 years the stats have been kept. Abortion has NEVER mitigated poverty. You would’ve denounced Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Report in 1965 warning about the increasing breakdown of the black family in 1965, where illegitimacy was an alarming 25% at that time.
Infant mortality–a favorite excuse from abortion apologists–is never put into proper context. Let’s understand that you’re saying that, somehow, 8,793 black infant deaths in 2007, justify over 360,000 abortions. Where’s the logic in that? More death is the solution to more death? In 1990, when abortion numbers had reached their highest point (or lowest point, morally, if you are prolife) the infant mortality rate was also much higher. Hmmmm…more abortions…higher infant mortality. This happens throughout historical abortion and infant mortality trends. In 1940 the white IMR was 16.03 and the Black IMR was 33.05 revealing that the racial disparity has NEVER been changed by abortion. Obviously there are other factors that cause this rate to be higher; healthcare disparities that are NOT solved by abortion chain you so ardently defend–Planned Parenthood.
Maternal mortality–yet another favorite excuse. Let’s use NYC as an example, since it’s the home of Planned Parenthood. In 1971, there were 37 maternal deaths with 67,032 legal abortions. In 2008, with 82,475 abortions, there were MORE maternal deaths–44. NYC has 42 times the abortion rate of the national average yet it’s infant and maternal mortality rate on nearly on par with the rest of the nation.
Your defense is weak.
“From forced sterilizations to the experiments at Tuskegee, there is a long and disgraceful history in this country of regulating and exploiting black women’s and men’s bodies and basic dignity.”
Yes. And this “long and disgraceful” history, aka EUGENICS, is what created Planned Parenthood and social policies (Jim Crow, anti-miscegenation laws, the Negro Project, abortion) that continue to dehumanize people of my complexion. And today, that history has culminated in the epidemic killing of black babies (i.e. 60% of all black pregnancies in NYC…50% of all black pregnancies in Philly). Black children, according to the pro-abortion think tank, Guttmacher, are aborted at 3-5x the rate of the majority population. Roe v. Wade’s contortion of the 14th Amendment, which finally ascribed humanity to black Americans like me, bizarrely justified stripping humanity from another class of people–the unborn. (See Justice Blackmun’s Roe v. Wade Majority Opinion which repeatedly invoked the 14th Amendment.) The tie-in with slavery, on MANY levels, is inextricable.
Go ahead. Defend the indefensible. Meanwhile, we’ll keep on educating our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, friends, and leaders in a community that needs more truth than your distractions and excuses. We’ll do whatever we can to help save the beautiful possibility in the three lives involved: the unborn child, the mother and father.
Helping others to shine…
Ryan Bomberger
The Radiance Foundation
Creator/Director of TooManyAborted.com
NAACP: National Association for the Abortion of Colored People
The NAACP’s Senior VP of Advocacy, Hilary Shelton, showed once again why the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, is increasingly irrelevant. Their dishonest, radically liberal approach to every issue reveals their unwillingness to tackle the problems faced by the black community. Shelton denounced The Radiance Foundation’s Juneteenth billboards, dismissing any connection with abortion to slavery.
The HuffPo reporter, as usual, distorted our interview, stating that I said TooManyAborted.com is “not political at all.” She had asked me if this Juneteenth effort was about trying to sway the “black vote” in the next election, and I responded: “Absolutely not. This isn’t about elections. The issue of abortion transcends the political. It is a moral issue. Our campaign is an apolitical approach to this epidemic of abortion.” It’s much easier for lamestream media, like HuffPo, to keep the public wading in the shallow end of the pool and not deliver anything of substance to the readers.
The NAACP, whose moniker would better be described as the National Association for the Abortion of Colored People, publicly proclaimed their support of abortion when they endorsed the 2004 “March for Women’s Lives” held by Planned Parenthood and NARAL. I told Ms. Bassett, the HuffPo “reporter” these details which….surprise…didn’t make it into the article. Instead she claimed that historically, the NAACP hasn’t taken a position on abortion. Lies.
First of all, his comments, alone, are an explicit support of abortion. Secondly, I told the reporter “silence IS a position”. I told her that Mr. Shelton’s comments simply ignore actual Civil Rights History especially the fact that Justice Blackmun’s majority opinion used the 14th Amendment (that finally ascribed black people full humanity) to strip it from another class of people—the unborn. Our Juneteenth billboards expose this history.
Mr. Shelton obviously has a different understanding of history. Slavery wasn’t about denying a black woman’s right to control her body; it was about dehumanizing the entire black race. It was about stripping the humanity of every single black individual that stepped off a slave ship onto American soil. It was about death and bondage, denying life and liberty. And today, abortion doesn’t bring more life into the black community, only more death, at epidemic levels. But the NAACP is silent. And their silence is complicity.
The NAACP refuses to defend the most vulnerable and disenfranchised among us. They’d rather launch a national campaign about glaucoma than do something about the epidemic levels of abortion in the black community. The NAACP stands by as our future is being killed.
