The community, r/Efilism, is devoted to a philosophy mentioned on a website published before Saturday's bomb blast.

Bartkus is believed to be the person who detonated a bomb at the Palm Springs American Reproductive Center, which offers services like IVF, because he was aligned with the pro-mortalist and anti-natalist movements—the idea that humans should not continue to procreate.

A law enforcement official says the person believed responsible for an explosion at a California fertility clinic posted online ramblings including a belief that the world should not be populated.

Social media platform Reddit banned the anti-natalist subreddit r/Efilism following Saturday’s explosion at a Palm Springs fertility clinic that killed the person of

A motive for the bombing at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs has been revealed after a 25-year-old man named Guy Edward Bartkus was linked to the blast.

Officials say police and firefighters have responded to an explosion that rocked the city of Palm Springs and damaged a fertility clinic.