Reaction To IVF Bombing Proves Even The People Who Destroy Embryos Know They’re Human
May 20, 2025
By: Jordan Boyd, originally published May 19, 2025, The Federalist
Both the alleged bomber and the fertility facility treat embryonic life as disposable. One, however, is accepted and celebrated for doing so.
Aradical who reportedly called for “war against pro-lifers” in his manifesto is suspected of bombing a California fertility facility on Saturday with the hopes of destroying embryos. The suspected act of terrorism not only adds to the list of anti-life-motivated violence that has manifested over the last few years, but also exposes Big Fertility’s double standard on embryos.
“We are immensely grateful to share that no members of the ARC team were harmed, and our lab—including all eggs, embryos, and reproductive materials—remains fully secure and undamaged,” the facility posted on its Facebook page Saturday. “We are heavily conducting a complete safety inspection and have confirmed that our operations and sensitive medical areas were not impacted by the blast.”
Supporters — including self-professed former and current patients — flooded the post with gratitude that the on-site embryos were “safe.”
In that same statement, ARC emphasized “we believe in creating life—not just in the biological sense, but in the emotional and spiritual sense, too.” The facility’s commitment to “use ALL of the most current resources, technology, and expertise available in fertility treatments to help couples make their dreams of parenthood come true,” however, means that the life ARC cheered the survival of on Saturday is still at risk of untimely destruction or discard at their hands.
Fertility facilities around the globe manufacture big batches of embryos via the hundreds of thousands of in vitro fertilization cycles each year. An estimated 93 to 97 percent of those lab-created lives, however, won’t make it to the womb or birth.
In addition to embryos that are tossed every year, some of which were likely viable, due to eugenics-esque, unreliable genetic testing and clients’ wishes, countless more are indefinitely frozen in time.
Sure, there are a few differences between the suspect and the fertility facility’s treatment of embryos. One tried to use a bomb to take them out, but the other uses a combination of thawing and medical waste disposal bins. The alleged bomber failed at his mission to end the smallest, most vulnerable version of human life, but the other succeeds almost daily.
The biggest discrepancy is that, even though both the alleged bomber and the fertility facility treat embryonic life as disposable, one is socially accepted and celebrated for doing so.
The normalization of the mass loss of life that results from IVF is not purely organic. More than 60 percent of U.S. adults want IVF shielded from regulation, an AP-NORC poll found last year. Yet, nearly half of those respondents agreed that “human life begins at conception” (something modern science, medicine, many states, and even pro-abortion biologists have repeatedly reaffirmed) and that “a fertilized egg is a person with the same rights as a pregnant woman.”
The reproductive tech touted by ARC, corporate media, and the political parties on both sides of the aisle blatantly infringes on those rights by denying embryos a chance at survival outside of a lab via implantation in a womb. Any attempt to suggest otherwise, however, such as when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled “all unborn children,” including embryos, are considered humans under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, is vilified.
According to the fertility industry, the serial creation and destruction of test tube babies is necessary and good as long as the people who commissioned those little lives are on board with throwing them out. Any attempt to harm the embryos outside of that context, however, appears to change their status as human lives worthy of protection.
It’s a miracle that the ARC embryos escaped destruction from a suspect who reportedly believed in “sterilizing this planet of the disease of life.” It’s a moral shame that those same embryos will likely face destruction by the fertility experts who manufactured them with little to no protest. No embryo should suffer an untimely fate — whether at the hands of a self-proclaimed “promortalist” or a fertility facility.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour.
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