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In this episode Ryan Bomberger shares his deeply personal journey of being conceived in rape, welcomed into a loving adoptive family of fifteen, and later choosing to adopt two of his four children. He passionately opposes abortion, underscoring its devastating toll on babies in the womb and championing adoption as a life-affirming path forward. Drawing from his own life, Ryan dismantles pro-abortion claims about quality of life and maternal hardship, showcasing adoption’s transformative power to bring healing and hope.

The conversation turns to Planned Parenthood, revealing its troubling origins in Margaret Sanger’s eugenics movement and its pattern of placing 79% of its surgical abortion facilities near minority communities. Ryan demands an end to taxpayer funding for the organization, pointing to its annual toll of more than 380,000 abortions, its $69.5 million in political spending during the last election cycle, and documented fraud. He argues that Planned Parenthood deceives women and delivers substandard care, while community health centers provide superior, holistic support. Ryan urges expectant mothers facing unexpected pregnancies to turn to pregnancy resource centers, which offer $385 million in free assistance each year, and calls on survivors of rape or abortion attempts to embrace hope, reject despair, and seek healing through life-honoring alternatives.

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Transcript

0:05: Hello and welcome.
0:06: You’re listening to Exposed Abortion in America, where we uncover the truth of the abortion industry.
0:13: I’m your host Eva Cooley, and in today’s episode we are welcoming Ryan Bamberger, a man who understands the power of adoption in a very personal way.
0:24: Ryan is a man who is conceived in rape, yet praises his mother for courageously choosing adoption.
0:32: Now Ryan and his wife Bethany travel around the US speaking to audiences about the dark realities of abortion and the beauty of adoption.
0:42: Today Ryan is going to tell us his very engaging life story and I’m sure you as our listener will leave feeling inspired by his mission of combating the many lies of Planned Parenthood.
0:57: So today I am thrilled to have Brian Bamberger joining me today on our podcast, and Ryan is an Emmy Award winning creative professional who founded the Radiance Foundation, a nonprofit organization, along with his wife Bethany.
1:12: Ryan is an international public speaker, a columnist, an educator, a broadcast media designer, producer, and author.
1:20: The list goes on and on.
1:21: And Ryan, most importantly, is a husband, a father, and has a deeply personal story about abortion that I’m so grateful that our listeners get to hear today.
1:32: so to jump right in, Brian, could you tell us your story?
1:35: Could you tell us about yourself?
1:37: Sure thing and it’s great to be here with you, great to be able to share my story.
1:40: Great to be alive that I can actually tell my story.
1:43: I am Literally that 1% that is used 100% of the time to justify abortion.
1:49: When we talk about the issue of abortion, inevitably gets to the question, well, what about rape?
1:55: And that’s my story.
1:56: My birth mom experienced the horror and the violence of rape, but I just thank God that she didn’t make me face the horrific violence of abortion.
2:05: She was courageous enough to be stronger than her circumstances, gave me not only the gift of life, but the gift of adoption.
2:12: And so here you have a woman who the rest of the world says, of course the natural follow up to such a horrific act is, you know, like rape is abortion, but yet she she rejected it, changed, you know, the timelines of not just my own life but the timelines of others, including my own family, extended family, and of course my wife and my my kiddos, and so I was adopted into a family of 15.
2:41: I have 12 brothers and sisters, 10 of us were adopted, and, you know, we’re every different hue and so many different backgrounds, all adopted and loved, and I grew up being loved by two amazing parents who love the Lord, and when you love the Lord, the natural outflow of that is loving people.
3:00: And so that’s my background.
3:01: That’s why I’m so passionate about fighting for the most marginalized cause that is my story, and now I’m happily married to.
3:09: The love of my life, Bethany Bamberger, the co-founder of the Radiance Foundation, and we have 4 kiddos, 2 of whom were also adopted, so we’re really passionate about adoption.
3:18: You can probably understand why, but that’s my backstory, and that’s why when people ask me, well, you’re a guy, why do you care?
3:24: Well one, I care about the issue of abortion because I’m human, and secondly, because I was rescued.
3:31: From the violence of abortion.
3:34: Wow, thank you so much for sharing that with me and with our listeners.
3:38: It’s such a powerful and just beautiful testimony to the, the choice that that your birth mother made to not abort you, despite, I’m sure, many fears that she was experiencing, and instead to give you the opportunity to live.
3:55: And it’s beautiful for us to see what you have done with your life and the fact that you were also able to adopt children of your own.
4:03: I want to talk about two arguments that often get used by the pro-abortion side in cases like yours, and#1, it’s that, well, what quality of life is the child going to have if they are born?
4:15: And number 2, what impact is it going to have on the mother, the birth mother, to be forced to carry her child to term?
4:23: So I’m wondering if you have a response to both of those arguments as someone who has seen firsthand the impact of adoption and the bravery of your birth mother for choosing life.
4:34: Yes, the question about the quality of life is just means to dehumanize an individual and to dehumanize a situation.
4:43: I mean you could apply that to anyone.
4:44: No one knows what the quality of life is necessarily going to be for any human being, and that’s not an argument to to legitimize killing that human being.
4:54: And we don’t necessarily control all the components of life that dictate our quality and regardless of the quality of life, we all deserve the right to life.
5:05: And so for those who, who asked that question, I, I’d like to turn around on them and say, well, did you control the quality of your life?
5:12: Did you, did your parents know how things would turn out?
5:15: Of course not.
5:16: So it’s a really weak argument to argue quality of life, It’s amazing when human beings try to be arbiters of human value, we regularly get it wrong, and when we get it wrong, unfortunately, there’s there’s destruction and death.
5:31: As far as birth mothers being forced or even women being forced to carry a child to term.
5:39: I Pregnancy is natural.
5:41: I mean, you’re not that the forced act is violence.
5:45: That’s what interrupts the nat natural act, and to say that someone being forced, well, when you offer the solution or say that the only solution to something like for instance rape is abortion, where you’re forcing that woman to go through the physical and emotional consequences of abortion.
6:02: Abortion, the act itself doesn’t care what the reasons for the abortion are.
6:07: It still has the the same.
6:10: destructive sort of effects on women, and we’ve seen this in peer reviewed study after peer reviewed study, the emotional, psychological, physiological effects of abortion.
6:19: And so for someone to say you’re forcing that woman, while you’re forcing her to not actually consider that there is a life affirming option that not only allows her child to live, but allows her to also live without the regret.
6:32: It also allows her to be able to to live through and to heal from.
6:39: Such a horrific act like rape, for instance.
6:41: I mean, it’s the rapist that needs to be punished, and a woman is not punished because she choose to chooses to be courageous enough to actually give birth to her child.
6:52: And so I, I hear these arguments all the time from people who, who constantly keep saying, you know, they talk about equality and we all need to respect each other and respect our equality, but yet they They deliberately don’t put that equality on those whose circumstances they feel don’t justify their existence.
7:16: Wow, those are incredible answers, and I’m wondering if you could tell our listeners a little bit more about adoption and why it is such a great alternative to abortion.
7:26: Well, adoption in, you know, as, as a Christian, I look at it.
7:31: Differently perhaps than someone with a secular worldview, but adoption in the natural and the supernatural brings wholeness and healing.
7:38: It is is one of the most loving acts that exists.
7:43: I mean, we talk about racial reconciliation, for instance, in our society all the time, but one of the most powerful acts of racial reconciliation.
7:49: I, I put air quotes around racial cause we’re all one human race, but one of the most powerful acts of this reconciliation is bringing a child of a different hue, a different background, and into your home and loving.
8:01: Him or her simply because they deserve to be loved.
8:04: Adoption happens because of brokenness, because the natural order of things is broken, and it serves as a means to bring healing and wholeness.
8:13: It’s not an instantaneous solution, not usually nothing is, but it is a beautiful loving act of not just.
8:21: Of of mercy of compassion, but it’s an act of justice because a child deserves to be loved by a mother and a father, and some birth parents are not able to for whatever reasons, maybe because of economic reasons, maybe because of emotional reasons, maybe because of addiction to drugs or some other circumstance, but they’re not able to, and what a powerful way to say, you know what.
8:49: You know, for a birth parent to say I can’t take care of this child, but I’m gonna make a powerful parenting choice and say I am going to allow this couple to to love my child.
9:02: And and I think it’s, it’s an amazing act that doesn’t just end with that decision because most adoptions today are open adoptions, which means that the birth parent or parents, it’s typically the birth mom in these situations, but the birth parents can have a connection to the adoptive family and to the daughter or son that they created, and it’s really an amazing thing because it allows there to be this connection and I know many families who have open adoptions.
9:31: A connection for a lifetime.
9:33: And so what it does, it completely erases the questions like what if, because you have the abortion industry speaking so much fear into every situation, particularly adoption well you don’t know who’s gonna adopt them, you know what their life is gonna be like, and so many choose.
9:48: Tragically, the violence of abortion over the The questions of well, what if, what if, what if?
9:57: And so I think adoption answers a lot of these questions and A society that actually embraces adoption as one of two life-affirming alternatives.
10:07: Obviously parenting is the other, but one of two alternatives to the violence of abortion is a strong society.
10:13: I mean, we, we exhibit our strength.
10:16: In the way that we help the weakest among us, on the way that we defend the weakest among us, we don’t exhibit our strength in the way that we destroy the weakest among us.
10:27: And as an adoptive parent too, I obviously have a perspective as an adoptee and now with two of my four children being adopted.
10:35: It is truly an empowering thing.
10:38: It’s an empowering thing for the for the birth mother.
10:40: We know this because we work with a lot of birth mothers across the country.
10:44: One of our board members is the birth mother, and she describes her experience in this way.
10:49: She says adoption saved my life.
10:53: That’s what she tells people when she speaks about her experience.
10:56: She was in a horrific toxic relationship.
10:59: She had was involved in some things that were actually destroying her.
11:04: And adoption saved her life.
11:05: It awakened her and it saved her child’s life.
11:08: And so the way that we look at it at adoption, is that we look at as a way of bringing wholeness and healing, and I’m excited that we see now an administration that’s actually gonna be far more supportive of adoption, instead of pouring untold hundreds of millions if not a couple billion each year.
11:31: Into the abortion industry and abortion propaganda.
11:36: Yeah, and you’re exactly right, Ryan, like Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion chain in the United States, they would never talk about stories like the one you just shared with me about a woman saying that adoption saved her life.
11:52: There’s a statistic that the Charlotte Lozier Institute found they reported on it in one of their fact sheets based on Planned Parenthood’s annual report that 97% of pregnant women when they go to a Planned Parenthood, are going to come out with an abortion, and that means that less than 3%.
12:11: Of their services involve actual prenatal care and adoption referrals, and that’s just heartbreaking when you hear stories like the ones that you just shared about you, about your family, your, your children, and this woman that you mentioned about how adoption was such a beautiful choice for her.
12:30: Those, those stories aren’t being told, but they need to be told.
12:34: And so I’m just wondering if you could give our listeners a little bit more of a glimpse into what your personal experience was with adoption of adopting your two of your children, I believe, and with you yourself being adopted.
12:49: Well, we have to understand too when it comes to adoption, Planned Parenthood, adoption doesn’t make them money.
12:54: I mean, their last annual report, they reported it was about 1700 adoption referrals.
12:59: I think it was 1,721, but adoption is to make them money.
13:03: So we have to understand that that is why they constantly demonize that one because they have a very anti-human worldview, and also because they’re, that’s not their, their revenue maker.
13:17: And so of course they’re not going to uphold that or to celebrate that because it also contradicts an understanding of human worth and value.
13:26: And for Planned Parenthood, they don’t hold the the perspective that every human life has equal and inherent worth.
13:36: I’m glad I’m glad that my parents, Henry Andrew Bamberger, didn’t look at the circumstances of my conception and to evaluate my worth.
13:44: They love love me simply because I was a child that they knew that God meant for them.
13:50: Certainly didn’t mean for my birth mom to go through that horrific violence, but my parents didn’t fixate on how I came to be, but focused on who I was meant to be.
14:00: And so when you grow up loved, regardless of your circumstance, it changes the way that you see things.
14:06: When you grow up in a family with, you know, siblings with disabilities, for instance, it changes the way that you see human value, changes the way that you see other people reacting and interacting with your siblings, and it, it changes the way that you see weakness.
14:22: We often we talk about weakness in our culture and people want to cut it out and I’m like some of the weakest among us are the most inspiring.
14:29: Are you kidding me?
14:30: And so having two of my own kids who were adopted, my oldest being radiance, kind of a little backstory here.
14:37: Radiance is our oldest daughter, but radiance is my wife’s biological daughter and my wife in her late 20s was teaching in Philly.
14:45: She was a single woman, had actually her life had kind of been falling apart, was in a super toxic relationship, walked away from that only to find out that she was pregnant.
14:55: And as a teacher, a fellow teacher, she was teaching in inner city Philly at the time.
15:00: Fellow teachers just told her just abort it.
15:02: And I thank God that of course she never did and she never considered abortion, but the pressure on her as a professional young woman was to abort, and she, she puts it this way, my child wasn’t, how do you say my child was not an obstacle for me to overcome, but an opportunity for me to become more than I ever thought it could be.
15:24: And that of course that’s my wife Bethany.
15:26: I love her like crazy, and she, she held firm to that, and that’s why she never gave in caved in, and that baby girl Radiance, the reason for the name of our organization, is now 20 years old.
15:39: She’s a sophomore at Liberty University studying to be a teacher like her mama.
15:44: And so being able to adopt that girl took 5 years in court because courts are crazy and took 5 years to actually battle for her and But I, I say 5 years, but I’ve, I’m the only dad she’s ever known.
15:57: So since she was 1, I’m the only dad she’s ever known.
16:01: We got married when she was 1, and a month later she turned 2, but since she was even a few months old, I’m the only dad that she’s really ever known, the only dad who ever poured everything into her.
16:14: And so being able to adopt her as my own, I remember her question that Bethy asked me when we were when we were engaged, she said, well, are you gonna be able to You know, love, love our baby girl that my baby girl at that time we weren’t married yet, my baby girl the same way you would love our biological children in the future, and I thought, have you met me?
16:34: I’m adopted.
16:35: I’m the favorite in my family.
16:37: Of course my siblings might disagree with that, but I still think I am.
16:40: Of course I would, and for someone like Bethan who didn’t come from a background of adoption, she didn’t understand how strong that bond is.
16:50: Between parent and adopted child, and then Bethany and I both adopted her youngest child, Justice.
16:55: In fact, both these adoptions happened.
16:57: This is much longer story.
16:58: I won’t have time to tell this in in the podcast here, but we adopted them both on the same day in Atlanta courthouse, about 2 hours apart.
17:06: It was just miracle after miracle, but the situation with Justice that he had a birth mom who we’ve known for a long time.
17:13: She was almost like a little sister to us.
17:15: She was also adopted.
17:16: And was going through really, really rough time living in a motel with some other single moms and just in a really impoverished situation, knowing that she could not provide for another child.
17:28: She already had a one year old, and the situation there was that we offered help.
17:33: Take care of both children till she could get back on her feet, and what she opted to do was to place the newborn baby for adoption with us.
17:42: We gave her family profiles of other families.
17:43: She said, if you guys consider adopting, and by the way, I was all about not adopting a newborn at that time, I thought I was done with newborns.
17:52: God’s got a sense of humor, but she said if you guys will be the adoptive parents, I’ll I’ll do the adoption.
18:00: And that’s how we got the incredible gift, whose name is Justice, our youngest, who’s now 14 years old and is 6’2, and a gift.
18:09: Every one of our kids are gift, biological or adopted, but it changes the whole family.
18:14: Adoption doesn’t just change the child who is embraced by a family, but it changes the entire family.
18:20: It changes the community and in some cases, it changes the world.
18:24: I mean, look at Steve Jobs, he was adopted and loved and look how his Ingenious devices Apple, although the co-founder of Apple, changed the world, Jesus.
18:39: Not the biological son of Joseph.
18:41: Adopted and loved by a man who could have chosen to leave, but he chose to love instead.
18:47: Obviously changed the world far more than Steve Jobs did.
18:50: So that’s why when I talk about adoption, I talk about how it is.
18:55: It’s such a powerful act of love that brings wholeness, that brings healing, that brings possibilities that abortion never can.
19:07: Wow, thank you so much for sharing both of those beautiful stories of radiance and justice, and I’d encourage our listeners to go check out the Radiance Foundation’s website and learn more about Ryan and his wonderful family.
19:22: Ryan, I’d love to switch gears here.
19:24: You mentioned the pressure that your wife felt to abort her child, and I’m wondering if you could Give us a glimpse into that pressure, but specifically specifically when it comes to minority groups.
19:39: I know that you, you travel and you do talks on the social injustices of abortion, and I was hoping that you could provide our listeners with some of your main talking points, some of your main arguments on this issue.
19:53: Sure, and those words social injustice, I named that presentation specifically because you hear so much about social justice, of course, now some of the words have morphed over the past few years, but Social justice typically is is an ideology that has been so perverted and so distorted.
20:13: if you don’t have life, that’s the greatest injustice and nothing else matters.
20:18: Without life, no other rights matter, for instance, and so.
20:22: We talk about the social injustice, I mean, if you’re in the black community, the leading cause of death is abortion.
20:28: It outnumbers the top 15 causes of death combined.
20:30: So as an organization, the Rings Foundation has been highlighting this.
20:34: Of course, we talk about abortion being a tragedy no matter the hue of skin, but my goodness, you got you got a community that is being targeted historically and presently by a multi-billion dollar abortion industry.
20:47: That pressures people into, in fact, I’ll give you a perfect example of the pressure.
20:52: In Ohio, the, the state’s largest abortion facility is called Preterm, and in Cleveland it put 16 billboards that made claims like this.
21:01: Abortion is a family value.
21:03: Abortion is equality.
21:06: Abortion is necessary.
21:07: This is what they place in predominantly black Cleveland.
21:12: This is the kind of messaging that happens from the abortion industry.
21:15: So we responded by putting billboards that said abortion is fake feminism, abortion has lost fatherhood, abortion is systemic racism, and it is, it is absolutely systemic racism.
21:25: When the number one killer of black lives is abortion, and yet Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry is constantly targeting the very ones who they have been targeting since Margaret Sanger’s days during what was called the Negro Project when they They promised that, for instance, birth control would be the uplift out of poverty, and it never has been.
21:50: It still is not.
21:52: And that morphed of course, into abortion on demand, and abortion does not provide an uplift out of poverty either.
22:00: It is a form of poverty.
22:02: It’s a form of spiritual and emotional poverty that says you have to destroy.
22:09: Your posterity, your child, in order for you to become something, in order for you to be equal, and that message is is the loudest in the black community.
22:21: In fact, I remember receiving an email from Planned Parenthood that’s 11 of the sentences that stood out to me says black people are our base.
22:28: Those are the exact words.
22:30: Well, of course they are, because sadly they have been convinced and conned.
22:35: Into thinking that Planned Parenthood is somehow their savior.
22:37: Well, Planned Parenthood is not the savior of black people, it’s not the savior of women, it’s not the savior of the poor.
22:44: We already have a savior came to give life, not to take it away.
22:47: So the greatest social injustice to me is actually convincing people that somehow.
22:53: Human life is a threat to your own life, human life that you’ve created, and so what it’s morphed into now is a community that has been so deceived.
23:06: I mean our our entire public is being deceived, but, but in the black community, it is statistically, I mean, you’re talking about abortion rates up to 5 times higher in New York City more black babies are aborted than born alive.
23:21: So you can see this playing out and how it’s even more devastating from a statistical perspective than any other demographic.
23:28: No other demographic experiences this more deaths induced deaths by abortion than births.
23:34: Only the black community has that statistic and it’s something that we’re fighting against because we believe that every human life, regardless of beautiful hue of skin, has equal inherent value, and that’s why we keep fighting to expose this.
23:49: Thank you for that response, Ryan, and I’m wondering if you can tell us more specifically, you mentioned Margaret Sanger.
23:55: I’m wondering if you can tell us more information about who she was, the types of people that she surrounded herself with, and what she believed about eugenics specifically.
24:06: Well Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist, eugenics was basically a a pseudoscience, a very racist and elitist pseudoscience that that believed that only certain human beings were worthy of living.
24:18: And so Margaret Sanger was a leader in that movement.
24:21: She was part of the American Eugenics Society.
24:24: She actually wanted to merge with the American Eugenics Society.
24:27: She wanted to merge Planned Parenthood, which was at that time called the Birth Control Federation of America.
24:32: , merged with, AES, the American Eugenics Society.
24:37: She was the leading cheerleader for that organization, and she had such a warped mindset.
24:44: Now you’re talking about somebody in the Early 1900s, who people I I love when people try to excuse Marcut Sanger.
24:51: Planned Parenthood has been trying to do it for years and years.
24:53: It’s only during COVID when they finally admitted what the pro-life movement has been saying for a long time.
24:57: She was a racist, she was eugenicist, and her worldview was vile, and they sort of kind of rejected her, but I mean, she, she had people who were, I mean, leaders in in in the American Eugenics movement, which we have to understand, it is what inspired the Holocaust.
25:19: It’s what inspired the leaders of the Holocaust to actually embrace a basic basically ethnic cleansing that came from the American Eugenics Society.
25:30: I mean, Laro Stoddard, eugenicist and a Klansman, he was a Planned Parenthood board member.
25:34: , prolific writer whose words inspired the Nazis.
25:38: These were the people that Margaret Sanger, she just didn’t just hang around, they were part of her board.
25:43: They were part of her international conferences.
25:45: Her worldview was so vile.
25:48: I mean, there’s an interview with Mike Wallace years and years ago where he’s asked that she believes in sin, he asked her, do you believe in sin and And she said, I believe that bringing a child with a disease and with, you know, certain issues with their parents, that that’s the greatest sin in the world, bringing this child, these children into existence because they’re not, they can’t be fully human.
26:13: I mean this is, you know, they’re gonna be criminals, they’re gonna be felons and all sorts of bad things.
26:17: This is Margaret Sanger, the one that Planned Parenthood has worshiped.
26:20: They named their centers after her, they give out the Margaret Sanger award for years and years and years.
26:25: And then all of a sudden when they they went fully woke.
26:29: They try to, you know, throw her under the bus, but they could take her name off of every center taking and changing the name.
26:38: Does nothing because it the the DNA is exactly the same, a very racist mindset from a very racist founder.
26:45: In fact, one of their affiliates, the Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, put out this manifesto finally acknowledging saying Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a racist, and they go on to say how Planned Parenthood has actually struggled with white supremacy, and I would argue that the issue is not white supremacy, it’s sin supremacy, and that can reside in any heart.
27:07: That invites it in, but they, this is, this is a Planned Parenthood affiliate, 300 current and former employees saying yes, she was a racist.
27:16: Hey pro-lifrs, you’re right.
27:17: Well, they didn’t say that part, but they did say yes, she’s a racist, and this is the the founder whose DNA continues to drive this organization to target the black community to Actually carry out this very anti-human population control.
27:35: That’s what abortion is.
27:36: People need to understand it’s what it, it’s what it’s called by eugenicist, and it’s what it is because they believe that some humans and back then during Marcu Sanger’s days, it was those who were considered dysgenic, meaning that they didn’t have the right, you know, heredity.
27:50: They didn’t have the the right inheritance, they didn’t have the right sort of whatever the the attributes were if they were born.
27:57: , out of wedlock, which was the phrase then to women who weren’t married, those were considered dysgenic, those who had mental or cognitive disabilities, those were considered dysgenic.
28:09: they wrote off large swath of human beings as dysgenic, saying that they didn’t deserve to exist.
28:17: And so Planned Parenthood.
28:19: That that was their mission to eliminate, to control the population so certain people wouldn’t be born, and they’ve never stopped targeting the black community.
28:28: So when people talk about Margaret Sanger, like, oh that was in the past, that was in the past, it’s almost like saying, well, well, Martin Luther King Junior was in the past, Frederick Douglass was in the past, uhannie Lou Hamer was in the past.
28:39: , Harry Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin was in the past.
28:43: there are lots of things that are in the past and their ideology and their worldview are just as relevant today, and sadly Margaret Sanger’s worldview, although dressed up in euphemisms, is still tragically alive and well today, not just through Planned Parenthood, but through a progressivism that has infected nearly every institution in America.
29:06: Wow, and Ryan, you’re exactly right about so many things that you just mentioned, but it’s true that Planned Parenthood has tried to separate them from Margaret Sanger’s legacy.
29:16: But when you hear statistics like the fact that 79% of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are within walking distance of minority communities, when you hear statistics like that, It’s, it’s evident that they, this skeleton that’s in their closet, it’s not, it’s not just a skeleton that’s in their closet, it is very real.
29:39: It’s a very real way that they are right now operating as an organization, and I, I’m wondering if you can tell us more about why you believe Planned Parenthood should be defunded right now.
29:54: Oh, there’s so many reasons.
29:57: How about they kill human beings?
29:58: That should be the first and foremost reason, you know, over 380,000 a year, that that is a good enough reason.
30:06: But if you don’t want to defund them for moral reasons, defund them for political reasons.
30:10: Planned Parenthood is basically the, the abortion arm of the Democratic Party, which is why it does, it bewilders me.
30:17: That, you know, getting very political here because this is how we have to resolve this situation.
30:22: But you’ve got the Republican Party that should be seeing Planned Parent as the enemy.
30:25: When in the last election cycle they spent $69.5 million electing pro-abortion Democrats and helping to pass all these radical pro-abortion ballot initiatives in state after state, why in the world would you continue to fund them?
30:38: Why in the world would you give them $700 million a year so they can turn that back around, funnel it to their 501c4s.
30:47: And of course, even the money that’s funneled to those 501c4s like Planned Parenthood votes and and other Planned Parenthood advocacy organizations, they do plenty of electioneering if you will.
31:00: Planned Parenthood spends what, $200 and I think it’s $260 million on advertising, lobbying, and what I call propaganda PR like defund them.
31:12: Why are we giving them money?
31:15: To to not only kill human beings, but also to demonize any elected leader that actually believes that human life is worth protecting.
31:25: Why would we continue to funnel money to an organization that is so corrupt?
31:29: I mean, right now we’re fighting, and there’s a court case going to the Supreme Court, South Carolina trying to defund Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid program.
31:38: Remember, Planned Parenthood defrauded Medicaid.
31:41: In fact, in Texas they had to pay back $5 million it’s only a fraction of what the fraud actually was, but they are demanding that they have a constitutional right to be funded.
31:52: No, no, no, they don’t.
31:53: They have no constitutional right to be funded.
31:55: We do have a constitutional right to is being alive.
31:59: Planned Parenthood denies that constitutional right.
32:01: So those are some of the reasons.
32:03: The the new business model that they are now embracing, the whole embrace of transgenderism and funneling all kinds of money toward that propaganda and giving puberty blockers out like their candy.
32:17: That should be another reason why they, I mean, the.
32:20: They not only mutilate human lives in the womb, they mutilate them outside of the womb.
32:26: So there are, I mean we have a fact sheet that’s called the top 10 reasons to keep Planned Parenthood out of your local schools.
32:34: The list is long.
32:35: I mean, what they do is they misinform, that they mistreat, then they repeat.
32:42: They, in fact, my wife Bethany taught in a school where every every other Tuesday was called Sex Tuesday and Planned Parenthood activists, not not medical professionals at all, even the medical professionals that are there, I question all that cause they’re more activists than they are medical professionals, but activists would come in.
33:00: Every other Tuesday for 45 minutes, my wife taught math and she had to give up her math class to Planned Parenthood as they spewed their propaganda to these young children, these 8th graders, 7th and 8th graders, and this is what happens in a lot of urban schools.
33:15: Planned Parenthood is embedded in these schools so that they can basically just, it’s marketing 101.
33:21: They can create customers.
33:23: Why in the world are American taxpayers forced to fund an abortion giant and now the the new.
33:29: Gender mutilating giant.
33:32: I don’t know how to say that.
33:33: I mean, we used to fight gender, genital mutilation overseas, right?
33:37: That was a horrible thing.
33:38: How dare they do that?
33:39: And somehow now we’re celebrating it with these dangerous puberty blockers, carcinogenic puberty blockers, which then of course then lead to these these insane surgeries, but this is Planned Parenthood’s new model, so.
33:53: I don’t even know where to end, why we should be defunding Planned Parenthood.
33:57: They are corrupt.
33:59: They are.
34:01: They are an abortion slash gender destroying business, and American taxpayers should never be forced to fund a multi-billion dollar business that destroys human life.
34:16: Hm, and I, I love that.
34:19: That quote that you had of Planned Parenthood, they misinform, they mistreat, and then they repeat, and they’re doing it with your taxpayer dollars and it’s just really horrible stuff that even now liberal media like The New York Times, they just recently came out with a piece talking about some of the horror stories that women have experienced at Planned Parenthood like.
34:46: One story of sewage leaking into the abortion recovery room, causing patients to throw up improperly placed birth control devices, implanting an IUD into a woman that is 4 months pregnant.
35:02: This is the care that Planned Parenthood provides, and this is what taxpayer dollars are going to, and it needs to end.
35:11: So thank you, Ryan, so much for Offering so many of the reasons why Planned Parenthood needs to be defunded, but not everyone believes that.
35:20: And so I’m wondering if you can tell us what what you would have to say to people who think that defunding Planned Parenthood is going to hurt women’s access to getting quality medical care, because a lot of women associate, unfortunately, Planned Parenthood with being able to get abortions, and they associate abortions with medical care.
35:42: Yeah, because we’ve got generations that have been duped into believing that somehow abortion, the killing of another human life is actually health care.
35:52: I, I just put this way, if abortion is health care, then slavery was job care, but it’s amazing what happens when you hear the same lie over and over and over again.
35:59: I’m gonna give you an example of why when we defund Planned Parenthood actually improves women’s health, Healthy Texas Women program, which was created in Texas when they defunded Planned Parenthood, allowed far greater funding of comprehensive health facilities, far more than than, you know, far more healthcare than Planned Parenthood actually provides, and it’s, you know, available for low income families, low income women are able to access this healthcare and it would expand that and it continues to expand that.
36:34: People keep talking about, well, if Planned Parenthood goes under, women will have nowhere to go.
36:38: We should remember less than 2% of them, even if every, every client or cus or patient of Planned Parenthood were were a woman, that’s 2.05 million people, right?
36:50: And of course it’s not all women, there are some guys in that mix, but even if all of them were women, that’s less than 2% of women of reproductive age in America.
36:59: You’re not gonna stop health care to women because less than 2% have to be diverted somewhere else, and we’re gonna be diverted community health centers.
37:08: They’re taxpayer health centers, taxpayer funded health centers, or sometimes they’re called federally qualified health centers, and there are far more of them.
37:16: There are 15,000 of those clinics versus Planned Parenthood, 600 abortion centers.
37:21: And they serve far more patients and have been able to absorb more and more patients and include more and more patients each year.
37:28: They serve 32.5 million patients in 2023.
37:32: Planned Parenthood served 2 million.
37:34: So this nonsense that somehow defunding Planned Parenthood impacts women’s healthcare.
37:39: It’s not true.
37:40: Abortion is not health care, and there are so many women who feel so pressured to have an abortion, because Of the rhetoric that Planned Parenthood successfully successfully been able to communicate not just through their centers but through ads through their partnerships.
37:59: I mean, one of their board members, what is it, what’s her name?
38:02: Sharonda Rhymes, one of the writers for ABC television programs.
38:06: I mean, their propaganda is everywhere.
38:09: It’s in corporations, they have, you know, corporate America liaisons and Planned Parenthood, so.
38:15: When we can pull back some of this money, all of this money, it actually goes a long way in stemming this propaganda that is convincing women, tragically convincing women, that somehow abortion is the health care and not the actual health care being the health care.
38:35: That’s a really helpful answer, and something that you just said made me think about pregnancy resource centers as well, because Planned Parenthood, as part of their propaganda, they have begun attacking pregnancy resource centers and leading women to believe that they can’t rely on pregnancy resource centers when in reality at these centers, women are actually given real options.
39:01: They’re given real choices other than just Aborting their child.
39:06: They’re given the opportunity to get resources, to get information, to to be able to be connected with someone that may want to adopt their child.
39:16: So, I just want to throw that in there as another way that Planned Parenthood has confused women, and they’ve confused the issue and And Planned Parenthood is not the only place that women can go to to get care, to get help.
39:30: It’s those federally qualified health care centers, and then also pregnancy resource centers all across the US, and Ryan, I just have two more questions for you here as we close, and my first question is, what would your word of encouragement be to women who might be in the same situation as your birth mother?
39:49: They might be.
39:50: Fearful about what their options are, they might, might be uncertain, they might feel alone.
39:55: What would your message be to them?
39:56: , there is so much love and support out there for you, and I know it, it may not feel like it in that immediate effect.
40:05: I, I can’t help but bring up pregnancy, resource centers, pregnancy care centers, cause they’re actually the ones who care.
40:11: They, they don’t make any profit off of the decision of a young woman or of a couple who is facing an unplanned pregnancy.
40:19: They don’t make a dime off of this.
40:22: The abortion industry does.
40:24: And so that’s why when you go into a pregnancy resource center or pregnancy medical clinic, you’re going to get the life affirming options and they’re not going to judge you.
40:33: I mean there are times when people still decide to to go through with an abortion, which is tragic, but yet you have centers run by women who’ve been exactly where some of these women facing the fear like my wife did, facing the fear and the confusion in the moment.
40:49: But there is so much help.
40:50: That’s why, you know, when you have these centers in the last reported year, $385 million worth of free medical material assistance.
41:00: For mothers and fathers, they care about you, and not just once your baby is born, but oftentimes for two years after.
41:07: So I just want to encourage young women out there, you are not alone in this.
41:11: There are people who have gone through exactly what you’ve gone through, who’ve been where you are, and a number of them are running the very centers that Planned Parenthood tries to demonize.
41:22: But if someone’s telling you and speaking fear into you, and you can see that wait, but they’re making a profit for my decision.
41:31: And they’re demonizing the centers that aren’t making a profit.
41:35: Maybe you should consider who’s actually there to help.
41:38: And so I’m just honored as just, you know, through our organization through the Rings Foundation, we’ve been able to partner with with hundreds of pregnancy centers over the year.
41:48: There are 3000 pregnancy centers or 450 maternity homes across the nation.
41:52: They are there to actually give the kind of support, the real support.
41:58: For those facing an unplanned pregnancy, and they are the the reality that triumph can rise from tragedy.
42:08: All the time.
42:09: That’s beautiful.
42:11: And my last question for you, Ryan, is, what would your word of encouragement be to other people who may be survivors of attempted abortion or to those who were conceived in rape, like yourself?
42:22: What would, what would your word of encouragement be to them?
42:26: To anyone who’s experienced that the horrific violence, my prayer is that you get the wholeness and the healing that you need, and that wholeness and healing doesn’t come by further violence, You know, it’s it’s the rapist that needs to be punished, not you, not you the victim, not the unborn child who also becomes the victim with abortion, but there is help and hope, and there is restoration.
42:53: I’ve met so many of those who who who’ve been victims of rape who become mothers through through rape.
43:02: And, and those who who are actually post abortive and what I found surprising, even as someone who was conceived and raped but adopted in love, I found surprising that the common thread with so many of these survivors is that the child is the only redemptive part of such a horrific act.
43:20: So if someone tries to to speak hopelessness and despair into you.
43:25: I, I just want to encourage you to reject that surround yourself with people who can speak hope and life into you.
43:31: And when it comes to the violence of rape, there There’s not an easy.
43:39: Solution in that I know it’s a lifetime and that my prayers that my birth mom got the wholeness and the healing that she needed.
43:45: She never could imagine that I’d be married to the most amazing woman in the world and have these 4 beautiful children, and that all was possible because my birth mom chose to be stronger than her circumstances, and anyone who is who’s endured that, you can be stronger than your circumstances too.
44:06: Well, Ryan, thank you so much for joining us today.
44:10: You have just been the most inspiring and the most thoughtful guest.
44:14: Thank you for sharing and being vulnerable with your personal stories of yourself and of your family.
44:21: Thank you for revealing the truth and the history of Planned Parenthood’s past and its relation with minority communities, and Thank you for giving our listeners a charge of why Planned Parenthood needs to be defunded and reminding us of all the horrible things that they have done that doesn’t deserve our taxpayer funding.
44:41: So I just want to say a huge thank you on behalf of myself and SBA and all of our listeners.
44:47: So thank you so much for giving your time to us today.
44:49: We really appreciate it.
44:51: It was a joy.
44:52: It was great to be with you.
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