By Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue
On a quiet Saturday morning in Palm Springs, California, Guy Edward Bartkus drove to a fertility clinic, detonated a car bomb, and blew himself apart—injuring four others and aiming to destroy not only a building, but thousands of innocent lives.
Bartkus wasn’t just a disturbed loner. He was a radicalized pro-mortalist and anti-natalist—someone who hated babies, despised human reproduction, and believed the world would be better if humanity ceased to exist. In his twisted view, even frozen embryos—children in their earliest stages—were so repugnant, he sought to wipe them out in a single blast.
This wasn’t a clinic bombing. It was an attempted mass murder of thousands of preborn children—a vile act that, if successful, could have eclipsed 9/11 in death toll, without a bullet fired or a plane hijacked.
This brutal act by an angry, broken, and murderous young man is the natural progression of a shamelessly promoted anti-god, anti-life ideology.
It’s the true face of the modern left: the Democrat Party, radical environmentalists, global depopulation zealots, and abortion industry profiteers. From abortion-on-demand to anti-natalist propaganda, they preach the same godless gospel: “Human life is the problem—kill it!”
These monsters preach and act on that philosophy—hence the attempted assassinations of Rep. Steve Scalise, President Donald Trump, and even myself, as I have received death threats simply for defending life.
This ghastly philosophy is akin to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and the Chinese Communist Party—ideologues who saw people as disposable, and who sacrificed millions on the altar of control, or eugenics. Cecile Richards and Margaret Sanger would be proud.
Thankfully, however, the world is not governed by the likes of these insane pro-mortalists, not yet anyway. Thankfully, the unchangeable moral ethic established on Mount Sinai continues to prevail. Human life is not a virus to be eradicated. It is the highest expression of divine beauty. Each person is made in the image of God, imbued with eternal worth, and offered redemption through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Bartkus’s bombing was demonic, yes—but it was also the logical conclusion of a world that embraces abortion, glorifies suicide, and calls child-killing “progress.” Anyone who gives themself to that type of darkness can become another Bartkus.
At Operation Rescue, we exist to shine a light into that darkness—to expose the killers in lab coats, the lawmakers who protect them, and the philosophies that fuel their culture of death. To engage the culture of death with the light of Christ.
And we will not back down. We will not be silent. To those who traffic in death, your reign of terror cannot last, because the God of Life cannot be mocked. Life and Light will always prevail.
This report may be republished with inclusion of the following acknowledgement: “This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America.“
