Ryan Bomberger was conceived in rape, yet his mother chose life. While serving in the military, Bomberger’s mother, Sharon, was raped and refused an abortion. Instead, she put her son up for adoption, “a decision,” Bomberger said, “that has caused beautiful generational reverberations.”
The abortion industry often uses the horrible circumstances surrounding Bomberger’s conception to justify abortion. Abortions from rape make up 1% of cases, yet rape is often used by the left to show why the sprawling abortion industry must exist. As a child of rape, “Ryan knows firsthand what it means to be the inconvenient life,” Matt Kittle said in an interview with Bomberger on The Vicki McKenna Show on iHeartRadio. Yet Bomberger’s mother chose life, allowing her son to grow into who he is today. “He is the counterargument to the death culture in America,” Kittle said.
In the interview, Bomberger said he was “conceived in rape but adopted in love.” His adoptive parents, Henry and Andrea, raised him, their two biological children, and ten other adopted children in their large Christian household of 15. Today, Bomberger is a father, husband, co-founder of the pro-life Radiance Foundation, an Emmy Award-winning creator, public speaker, writer, and author. He published his autobiography, Should Have Been Aborted, along with a documentary in May.
The last chapter of his book details the experience that inspired him to write it: meeting his biological family. For years, Bomberger searched for his biological mother, only to find that she had passed away. But he did find his biological aunt and the other members of his extended family. “They wanted to meet me; they wanted to know what happened to me,” Bomberger said in the interview, “[Which] is not the narrative the mainstream media ever wants to tell because it shreds their radical pro-abortion story that the only answer to something unplanned is … abortion, and there’s another side to the story.”
Although Bomberger has an impressive story, “Even if I hadn’t achieved anything in my life, I still have equal and inherent worth,” he said. Bomberger mentioned in the interview that he grew up with siblings who had various disabilities and close friends with Down syndrome. “The idea that your perceived level of ability gives you worth is nonsense. It is a very eugenic … racist and elitist pseudo-science,” he said.
Bomberger sees eugenics recently promoted in the mainstream media with YouTuber Jesse Ridgway, who posted on X earlier this month to explain why he aborted his child, which had received a diagnosis of Down Syndrome. Ridgway believed his child would be too “dependent on others,” and “didn’t realize just how rough [Down syndrome] is for the child, let alone the family.” To Bomberger, Ridgway’s post actually states that “those with disabilities don’t have equal worth,” he said in the interview. “It is a very eugenic mindset, saying you can be well-born, you can be perfect. No one is perfect.”
Though, according to Ridgway, the child would be too dependent, “all of us are a burden to somebody … we are not self-sufficient from conception. We are all always dependent [on others] in some way, shape, or form,” he said.
The Ridgways learned that their child could have Down Syndrome by taking a prenatal test. While these tests are “a valid and pro-life tool, which should be used to allow families to medically and emotionally prepare for a child who has a diagnosis … it has been hijacked by a pro-abortion and eugenic mindset to kill anyone deemed ‘defective’ or ‘unfit,'” National Right to Life said.
In Iceland, about 85 percent of women choose to get prenatal testing, and almost 100 percent of women who hear that their child may have Down Syndrome get an abortion. The abortion rate in America for unborn children with Down Syndrome is not much lower, with some studies placing it at 67 to 85 percent.
Bomberger urges parents who learn their child has Down Syndrome to consider “alternatives to ending the life of your unborn child because he or she doesn’t fit your perception of perfection,” and reject Ridgway’s selfish mistake to abort his baby and victimize himself online when “the real victim is the child that they decided to destroy because he or she had a disability.”
