Why a fatherless man bombed a fertility clinic — and the dark truth it exposes

On May 17, 2025, a 25-year-old named Guy Edward Bartkus detonated a bomb outside the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. Four individuals in the blast periphery were injured, but since the clinic was closed, no staff were harmed. Thankfully, neither were any embryos. The only casualty was Guy Bartkus himself.

But he had already been a victim of a different kind of blast — the one that destroyed his family.

When a man doesn’t believe his own life matters, he’ll start to believe no life does.

Investigators quickly learned that Bartkus was an anti-natalist, an ideology that sees human existence as inherently painful and thus worth ending — both for the individual and others. That he chose an IVF clinic, where life

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