Fertility clinic attacker would be linked to antinatalist ideology

The authorities say that the man who detonated a car bomb in front of a fertility clinic in California (United States) last Saturday It seems to have been motivated by the anti -Natalist ideologythe belief that no one should have children.

The attack destroyed the American reproductive center offices in Palm Springs, a fertilization clinic in vitro (IVF), but the explosion did not destroy the stored embryos.

IVF is a fertility treatment to which the Catholic Church opposes, in which doctors join sperm and ovules to create human embryos and implant them in the mother’s uterus. To maximize efficiency, doctors create excess and routinely destroy unwanted embryos.

The suspect, Guy Edward Bartkus, probably detonated the bomb in what the authorities consider an act of domestic terrorism. Bartkus died in the explosion, but there were no more victims, since the center was empty at the time of the outbreak.

The FBI would have found possible links between the suspect and a publication in an online forum where suicide through an explosive artifact, as well as a YouTube account with videos history about home explosives. The authorities They affirm that they are investigating the “manifesto” of the suspect, that supposedly It contained the antinatalist ideology known as “effilism.”

Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.