When Ryan Bomberger was 13, everything he knew about his origin story changed. He already knew he was adopted—his adoptive parents and siblings are white, and he’s biracial, he said with a laugh, but every adoptee goes through a process of wondering why they were given up for adoption. So to realize his birth mother couldn’t keep him because he was the product of rape was shocking. “It was devastating to think of,” said Bomberger, a creative professional and co-founder of pro-life nonprofit The Radiance Foundation. “You throw in a rewrite of your origin story to the most violent form of conception and that was really hard for me.” “But because I was so loved by my parents, I turned that pain into something very constructive,” Bomberger said. Bomberger was adopted at just a few weeks old into a family that showed their love through actions and service to their …