On Saturday, a deeply disturbed young man drove his car to a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic and attempted to blow up the building. After the bomb detonated, only one was left dead: the young man in question. Four others were injured and rushed to the hospital, though they were released within 24 hours, and their injuries were minor.
The FBI has declared this an act of terrorism. The question is, what sort of monster would target a facility housing preborn babies on ice?
Naturally, the Leftmedia rags pounced on yet another story that they thought could be used to bolster Democrat talking points. They speculated that since this was an IVF clinic, and many pro-life conservatives oppose IVF, the would-be murderer must have been on the Right.
Vanity Fair felt it necessary to point out: “The fertility clinic bombing comes as access to IVF has come under threat from some Republicans across the country — and the attack could deepen concerns for people attempting to start their families through in vitro services. … While IVF facilities and medical service providers have faced increased attacks recently, the kind of violence displayed on Saturday is more likely to occur at clinics that offer abortion services.”
The writer’s intention is clear: to conflate the pro-life movement with violence.
First of all, no genuine pro-lifer is going to take a life to prove a political point. Our whole shtick is about protecting life, particularly the life of preborn babies and their mothers. Wanton murder is oxymoronic to someone who consistently holds these views.
Despite Vanity Fair’s attempt to malign conservatives, this young man was the antithesis of a pro-lifer. Within 24 hours, the FBI and police released information on this terrorist, and it seems he was a “pro-mortalist” (pro-death, pro-extinction, etc.). He held the peculiar belief that his parents should have gotten his consent before having him. He also claimed that he was at war with those who held pro-life views. He saw IVF as being at the very heart of the pro-life movement, which it is not. Targeting an IVF clinic was just his way of trying to inflict the most casualties.
Thankfully, he failed in that particular mission.
Palm Springs Deputy Fire Chief Greg Lyle and FBI Special Agent Chris Melzer entered the structurally damaged fertility clinic and rescued medical records and the embryos. “They’re heroes, Palm Springs Police Chief Andrew Mills told reporters. “It’s because of them expecting mothers didn’t lose their dream of starting a family.”
The New York Times also celebrated that a mother’s dreams weren’t destroyed by this horrid action.
While I am not a supporter of IVF — it’s not always very ethical, easily corrupted, and not very pro-life — the saving of these tiny lives is something all reasonable humans can celebrate.
It’s interesting how a Leftmedia outfit like The New York Times can push abortion talking points on the one hand and celebrate the saving of embryos on the other. A baby is a baby regardless of whether the mother wanted it or not. Killing preborn babies is wrong — wrong at the hands of an abortionist, wrong at the hands of an IVF doctor, and wrong at the hands of a “pro-mortalist” terrorist. It’s a truth that gets conveniently sacrificed at the altar of leftist notions of bodily autonomy.
This young man was warped by a nihilistic ideology that defines life as a burden and full of suffering. He lost a friend to this same ideological view (that friend had her boyfriend kill her so that she was erased from existence) and had not seen or talked to his father in a decade. He was responsible for burning down his family home at the age of nine. He had all the hallmarks of one who might take a terrible path in life. Sadly for him and his family, that’s exactly what happened.
His view, however, isn’t uncommon on the Left. We often accuse leftists of being in a death cult. They support the murder of preborn babies up until the point of birth, they support the destructive gender ideology that leads to child mutilation, and they support the climate cult notion that there are too many people already and having more children is hurting the planet.
They have a distinct nihilist bent. Perhaps that’s something they should reexamine and change.
