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?”

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    14 hours ago

    I get why people might choose not to have children, but to assert that others shouldn’t is a whole other thing.

    Plenty of people seem to have no problem asserting that others should have children.

    But really, the problem isn’t about asserting what one should/shouldn’t do. At that stage, it is still just one’s opinion. It becomes a problem when someone resorts to using intimidation, coercion, or outright violence to try and impose one’s will.

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      12 hours ago

      I’ve never encountered the problem of being told I should have children, nor intimidation, coercion, or violence.

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        12 hours ago

        I’ve never encountered the problem of being told I should have children

        Childfree people encounter this all the time.

        nor intimidation, coercion, or violence.

        It can happen in abusive relationships, but it would be rare in more general situations.