2025 Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing

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On May 17, 2025, a car bombing occurred at a reproductive center in Palm Springs, California, United States, killing the perpetrator, and injuring four others. The explosion was described as one of the largest bombing investigations conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Southern California since the Aliso Viejo package bombing that killed one person and seriously injured two others in 2018. The perpetrator was identified as Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old man from Twentynine Palms, California. He was the only person killed in the attack, and his motives stemmed from ideologies that included an "anti-pro-life ideology", as well as promortalist and antinatalist beliefs, together described by the DOJ as "the belief that individuals should not be born without their consent and that non-existence is best", and by journalists quoting the FBI as "nihilistic ideation". Other journalists associate the bombing with the fringe philosophy of efilism, the idea "that human life...

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