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A 25-year-old self-described “pro-mortalist” has been identified as the attacker who detonated a car bomb outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs Saturday — killing himself and injuring four other people, according to sources. Guy Edward Bartkus, of Twentynine Palms, is believed to have detonated an explosive device in his car outside the American Reproductive Centers, which performs IVF treatments, egg collections and other procedures, law enforcement sources told The Post. Bartkus allegedly described his fanatical pro-death beliefs in written and recorded manifestos as being against bringing people into the world without their consent to spare them from future suffering,...

The man authorities say is responsible for bombing a reproductive center in Palm Springs, Calif. on Saturday has been identified as Guy Edward Bartkus. The 25-year-old is from Twentynine Palms, Calif., authorities said during a news conference Sunday morning. He is described as a "pro-mortalist," the New York Post reported. The car bomb he allegedly set off killed him and injured four people. There was "no loss of any sensitive material" as a result of the bombing at the IVF clinic, an FBI Los Angeles assistant director in charge said, referring to embryos.

Authorities identified the suspect in the explosion at a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic as Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, of Twentynine Palms, saying at a news conference Sunday that he is the man suspected to have died in the bombing that injured four other people. Akil Davis, the head of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, said that all embryos at the facility were saved. “Good guys one, bad guys zero,” Davis said. Investigators called the explosion on Saturday an “intentional act of terrorism.” The suspect posted writings online and attempted to record the explosion, though authorities said the video...