This information is being reported at a couple of international sites, but (if accurate) it has apparently been blacked out in the U.S.
The bomber at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has been identified as a 25-year-old man who left an online manifesto in which he described himself as a pro-mortalist, saying people didn’t give consent to exist.
The suspect is Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old man from Twentynine Palms, a small city about 35 miles northeast of Palm Springs. He left a 30-minute audio recording in which he explained his motive for the attack.
“I figured I would just make a recording explaining why I’ve decided to bomb an IVF building, or clinic,” he said at the beginning of the recording. “Basically, it just comes down to I’m angry that I exist and that, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here.”
Describing himself as anti-life, he adds: “I’m very against [IVF], it’s extremely wrong. These are people who are having kids after they’ve sat there and thought about it. How much more stupid can it get?”
Clears up my confusion on why someone would bomb an IVF clinic - that’s usually reserved for abortion clinics among American nutters.
Same here. I very nearly posted a $1,000 bet that whoever did this, they had a Sky Daddy, and another $1,000 that said person would directly attribute their belief in said Sky Daddy in why they were motivated to do this in the first place.
Come to think of it, this angry nutter saved me $2,000 today.
I guess the nicest thing I can do in return is point out that I’d happily be taxed more to get more competent social workers and psychologists into schools and normalize getting help especially in earlier years before pathology becomes deeply internalized.
You bet on the news with amounts of money that would be lifeline out of destitution for some people? Lol optics
There’s an angle to bomb it from that end, as well: if life begins at fertilization, then IFV involves a whole bunch of murders.
Their stance on IVF is often a good tell as to whether an anti-abortionist is a grifter or a true believer. Spoiler: it’s mostly grifters