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?”

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    One thing that has always seemed a bit ironic to me about any kind of anti-natalist is if they’re so sure that bringing another being into existence is cruel to that being, why don’t they kill themselves instead of trying to shame others or bomb clinics? Sure, they didn’t consent to being here, but there’s other options that don’t involve needing to stay here.

    And no, this isn’t advocating suicide, but more calling out BS on the entire position because they do consent to remaining here.

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      19 days ago

      why don’t they kill themselves instead of trying to shame others or bomb clinics?

      IMO if our society made painless suicide achievable many would choose it. Even with a terminal medical condition, euthanasia is very expensive and nearly impossible even in places it is legal.