What is “Efilism,” the Obscure Anti-Natalist Ideology of the Palm Springs Bomber?

TOPSHOT - A police line is seen outside a damaged American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic after a bomb blast outside the building in Palm Springs, California, on May 17, 2025. A bomb blast outside a California fertility clinic killed one person Saturday, in what the US attorney general called an "unforgivable" attack. The blast ripped through downtown Palm Springs, badly damaging the clinic and blowing out the windows and doors of other nearby buildings. (Photo by Gabriel Osorio / AFP) (Photo by GABRIEL OSORIO/AFP via Getty Images)

Palm Springs bomber Guy Bartkus was an adherent of an anti-natalist ideology sometimes known as “efilism.” But was he really “anti pro-life”?

The Intercept