By Laura Hollis, Patriot Post, May 22, 2025
Ultimately, antinatalism is further proof that a society that abandons God eventually careens toward self-destruction.
A fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, was severely damaged by a car bomb late last week, in what authorities are calling a deliberate terrorist attack. News reports have attributed the bombing to Guy Edward Bartkus, an emotionally troubled 25-year-old who appears to have been killed in the blast. Bartkus left behind social media posts and videos in which he expressed the intention to commit suicide in just such a manner, and described himself as an “antinatalist.”
Unlike the “child-free” movement, which objects to making people feel guilty for choosing not to have children, antinatalists believe no one should have children, arguing that the world is “unjust,” life brings suffering, and those not yet born cannot consent to being brought into existence; therefore, it is unethical to bring them into existence. …