This information (if accurate) does not seem to appear at any U.S. new site yet.
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?”
Huh… if this is accurate I think this is the first time I’ve seen this particular ideology do suicide bombings.
Welp, I suppose if it’s true it’s a happy ending for everyone, he doesn’t exist anymore and the IVF clinic’s embryos were unharmed.
He said he had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, so more mental illness than ideology.
¿Por que no los dos?
Yes except there were 4 other people injured, and some property damage.
Oh… I hadn’t heard about the injuries. That changes it a fair bit from the “Asshole suicide bomber blows only himself up” narrative I had in my head.
I tried to find anything about how badly the others were hurt, but I could only find that none were clinic employees, and there were no patients there that day. So his “mission” was a complete failure. And I would hope the lack of information indicates the passersby’s injuries aren’t significant, though it could be HIPAA or lazy reporting. Edit: all injuries minor, yay!
