THE PROLIFE MOVEMENT–THE SONG OF FREEDOM
By Ryan Bomberger, Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation
The world is moved by music. There is, perhaps, no more compelling construction than a melody to elevate and embolden a cause. Anti-slavery abolitionists understood its power and its ability to sustain them when defeat loomed all around.
The “Song of the Abolitionist”, written by the leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society, William Lloyd Garrison, served as a source of encouragement. Abolitionists were the targets of intense political persecution and verbal and physical violence. Garrison, himself, was brutally attacked for his anti-slavery beliefs, nearly lynched in Boston by a pro-slavery mob. Several stanzas in his song could be a rallying cry for today’s Pro-Life/Anti-Abortion movement:
“I am an Abolitionist! Then urge me not to pause,
For joyfully do I enlist In Freedom’s sacred cause;
A nobler strife the world ne’er saw, Th’enslaved to disenthral;
I am a soldier for the war, Whatever may befall.I am an Abolitionist! No threats shall awe my soul;
No perils cause me to desist, No bribes my acts control;
A freeman will I live and die, In sunshine and in shade,
And raise my voice for liberty, Of nought on earth afraid.”
Prolife advocates are direct descendants of slavery abolitionists. Both the slavery abolitionist and the prolife activist share the same struggle for human dignity and justice, rooted in the reality that we are created beings with intrinsic worth that can never be defined by man, woman or governmental institution. Abortion is just as evil an institution as slavery—both industries are inhumane practices of profit-driven human bondage and destruction.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: “The society’s antislavery activities frequently met with violent public opposition, with mobs invading meetings, attacking speakers, and burning presses.” Today they don’t need to burn presses; the mainstream press torches any semblance of objectivity in the abortion debate, deliberately demonizing the pro-life movement with the most incendiary words. And the attacks are relentless (see latest attack on Abby Johnson at the University of Washington), especially in allegedly educational environments, as was seen in my bizarre experience at Georgia State University.
Pro-abortion activists, like their pro-slavery predecessors, use the same desperate silencing tactics. This “OUTRAGE” poster, from 1837, could be used on any college campus today as activists refuse to
allow constitutionally protected free. Many are compelled by sheer emotion and ignorance in attempts to quash historical, scientific and statistical prolife education. So much for higher learning.
The attacks against civil rights leaders in the 60s weren’t just verbal, but explicitly violent; yet, the Civil Rights Movement had its theme immortalized in song. We still hear it today. “We Shall Overcome”, a heart’s cry about the deep evil of eugenics-based Jim Crow Laws, was filled with the insuppressible certainty that this injustice would be conquered.
Over the years, prolife songs have trickled out of the music industry, mostly from Christian artists. Many prolife advocates get excited about musicians’ willingness to address this present-day human rights issue. From the famous to the obscure, prolife messaging can be heard from artists like Lauryn Hill (“Zion”), Common (“Retrospect on Life”), Whitney Houston (“Miracle”), Steven Curtis Chapman (“All I Really Want”), J.Cole (“Lost Ones”), Flipsyde (“Happy Birthday”), Nick Cannon (“Can I Live”) , Christcentric (“Fight for the Children”), Natalie Grant (“Held”), as well as one of my favorites, Barlow Girl (“Tears Fall”). Tragically, too often in mainstream hip-hop and R&B, there are continually conflicting messages of morality that tend to negate any positive stance on the Life issue. (Jay-Z’s latest, Blue Ivy, is considered prolife by some, yet the entirety of his work is anti-life, anti-woman, pro-violence, and at times, inarguably, racist. Tragically, too, his wife, R&B superstar Beyoncé, allows Planned Parenthood fundraisers to be held at her House of Deréon.)
One of the latest prolife songs to be released is by innovative Christian hip-hop artist Trip Lee with a track called “Beautiful Life”. I’m moved every time I hear the song, singing the chorus with a grieved yet expectant heart. The chorus captures the essence of the issue: “Beautiful life inside, living, moving, breathing…So let Hope arise…God knew what He was doing when He gave beautiful, beautiful life…”
Imagine the chorus of millions across the globe, fearlessly declaring a potent refrain that unified this movement of justice. That anthem has yet to be written, but just like the compilation songbook Anti-Slavery Melodies, prolife songs are helping to break through the rhetoric, awaken souls to abortion’s destruction, encourage people to act with nonviolent urgency and even bring healing to those scarred by “choice”.
We are today’s abolitionists compelled by love, justice and mercy. I cannot wait for the day when our song will be one of true retrospect, rejoicing because human worth and dignity have been restored through abortion’s abolition.
ABORTION AND FOOD STAMPS DON’T ELEVATE THE BLACK COMMUNITY
By Ryan Bomberger of The Radiance Foundation
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, 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.
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Ryan Bomberger is the Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation, adoptee and adoptive father. He is an Emmy® Award-winning creative professional who resides in VA with his wife and four children.
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
