The FBI identified 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, Calif., as the suspect in a car bombing that occurred May 17, 2025, outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs. Photo Credit | FBI
A people-hater did something hateful.
The FBI is linking a suicide bombing against an IVF clinic to the anti-natalist ideology of the perpetrator, according to news reports.
The attack, which only killed the bomber but could have been much worse, is an act worthy of perhaps the dumbest and most poisonous ideology on the planet right now.
Anti-natalism is not based, like other cracked worldviews, merely on misbegotten economic theories or illiberal political ideas; it goes much deeper than that. It opposes human life, as such.
Communism and other forms of totalitarianism are often said to be anti-human. Anti-natalism takes it a step further and is purely antihuman. There are no other mitigating ideals like, say, equality or unity.
Anti-natalism doesn’t make invidious distinctions among the people it opposes — say, the kulaks or the Jews — but finds everyone equally unworthy.
A Today piece on the ideology explained, “Antinatalism is a spectrum. Some believe that there should be no sentient life, including animals or even technology with the potential for sentience, like artificial intelligence. Others think it’s just humans that should go extinct.”
For them, the sweet meteor of death is not just an internet meme, it is something to be devoutly wished for.
In its report on the clinic attack, Vanity Fair inevitably included a jibe at the GOP. “The fertility clinic bombing,” it noted, “comes as access to IVF has come under threat from some Republicans across the country — and the attack could deepen concerns for people attempting to start their families through in vitro services.”
I’ve spent a lot of time around Republicans in my time, and I’ve never met an anti-natalist Republican, let alone a pro-life anti-natalist, which makes about as much sense as a capitalist socialist.
A pro-life terrorist has always been a grotesque contradiction in terms, but a pro-death terrorist much less so (and the IVF attacker, Guy Edward Bartkus, reportedly described himself as “pro-mortalist”).
Pro-lifers are morally opposed to some IVF practices because they destroy human life; the bomber targeted the IVF clinic because it facilitates the creation of human life.
At the end of the day, we should be glad that the vast majority of anti-natalists aren’t consistent in their beliefs, or the clinic bombing wouldn’t be such an outlier.
If human life is a blight, it follows that it should be destroyed, although anti-natalists tend to retreat to the position that it is the creation of life in the first place that is the problem. If everyone stopped having kids, we would go extinct without the bother of mass murder or suicide.
They object to bringing new people into the world without their consent. Since the exercise of free choice is a function of being alive, though, this is a nonsensical point. Once someone is with us, then he or she can make all sorts of choices, including to perversely consider humanity itself a mistake.
Anti-natalists fret that this vale of tears is a vale of tears. Yet almost everyone prefers being alive and fears death.
“I’d rather be dead” is the sentiment of someone who is clinically depressed or is being subjected to horrendous mistreatment. The answer is not to say that this person is correct, and not just for himself but all of humanity; rather, if he’s depressed, it is to get him help, and if he’s being mistreated, to stop the mistreatment.
Even the soft version of anti-natalism — that overpopulation is dangerously overtaxing the planet — is false.
Surely, very few anti-natalists support antifertility terrorism of the sort allegedly carried out by Bartkus, who reportedly struggled with depression. By their way of thinking, though, they must believe that it was an entirely avoidable crime.
If we didn’t exist, it never would have happened.
Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
Reprinted with permission from National Review by Rich Lowry.
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From some reporting done on this via overseas reporters and journalists yesterday, the attacker left the usual rambling diatribe that went on and on about concerns over climate change, mankind damaging the planet by simply “being” and other left-wing priorities pushed heavily in schools today, as the reason why there shouldn’t be any more humans born. Thus, the so-called justification for the domestic terrorist attack.
You of course won’t see any details of this in the American MSM, as it is another scathing indictment of the garbage that passes for education (indoctrination) in our public schools today. It will either be another story either buried completely or so lightly reported on, with so little details given, that 90 percent of the public will be aware the attack ever happened.
This jerk is simply actively carrying out the wishes of Bill Gates and others who preach “overpopulation.” Of course, they mean “overpopulation” of the WRONG type of people!
People who are terrified of red dye or preservatives in their kids food seem to be oblivious to the poisonous thoughts kids are fed in government schools. Few under fifty have escaped ridiculous climate doomism. Its little wonder some decide to act on the hysteria theyve ingested.
He makes an excellent Democrat.
Another sicko Leftist ideology to add to the already very lengthy list of sicko Leftist ideologies.
don’t have to worry about that moron any longer
It’s Unadulterated Evil
hillary doesn’t want women to have babies!
People make fun of the Bible yet they come up with this kind of crap instead? Our situation has not improved!
Hopefully this little wuss will spend the next 20 years or so getting his backside really well worked out in some federal lockup. At least the jerk wont have to worry about giving birth to anything more than perhaps hemorrhoid’s.
Well, The View said he was a white supremacist but the first mug shot I saw showed a guy with MUCH darker skin. Is it just me or did someone whitewash his skin tone to fit the narrative?
These poor, delusional and wacked out, brain-damaged, freaks of nature should set the example and take themselves out FIRST as to prevent them from being just another low-life, sadistic hypocrite.
As a Christian, I find the loss of this young man to such an absurd ideal of anti-natalism deeply disturbing. What affect did the parents have in his life that led him to have such disregard for human life that he decided to kill himself for no fruition? Obviously, something was wrong with him and his upbringing. Terrorism is an evil crime that requires ruthless response, but I suspect this young man was not ruthless like muslim terrorists. He was morally adrift in a most horrendous way. I never celebrate the death of the most horrendous people. I never feel glee when humans that pose the most threat to other humans are executed. I just feel they earned their end. Many criminals have earned their death sentence. God will judge us all. Even those of us that think we are above the most tyrannical monsters in history are also at the mercy of God who created us all.
Another democrat bites the dust!
Judging from the photo… if he showed a grin with a missing front tooth, he’d be Alfred E. Newman….