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In a Facebook post, representatives from the American Reproductive Centers including Dr. Maher Abdallah reported that no members of the team were harmed in the explosion.
So the bomber kamikazied themselves to try and take down the building it looks like
Didn't work
And it's a fertility clinic to boot, not an abortion thing, so double ownage.
Yeah but lots of those weirdos are against IVF too which is what that clinic was doing.
Large gay population in Palm springs too that surely used that clinic.
"Life begins at conception" and the IVF process involves fertilizing eggs that might not end up being implanted for various reasons. If they're against aborting even zygotes, then being against IVF is consistent.
The arseholes who invented the "life begins at conception" ideological position ~50 or so years ago have a LOT to answer for.
Someone needs to inform these people that a skin cell is "life" yet you shed 500 million of those a day
Also it’s always the wrong people having children.
Muh birthrates
anti natalists taking direct action
They're losers, but I'll give them credit for having a hobby.
I'm taking the over on the FBI having knowledge of the suspect.
"Here's how you make a bomb"
Y'all Qaeda
Years of Leaded Gas
From what I gathered off the news it sounds like this bozo blew themselves up in a car ied, lmao
amerikkkans are so carbrained they can't even do terrorism right smh
What are they supposed to do, get out of the car and walk?
not without foreknowledge of waiting borgors
Vanilla ISIS
This was a fertility clinic not an abortion clinic, so this strikes me more as some nihilistic internet poisoned Atomwaffen Division nazi shit than Y'all Qaeda.
Lots of fertility clinics do abortions and many abortion clinics do assisted pregnancy. They're basically two sides of the same coin science wise.
But that's assuming a CHUD dumb enough to do this would even know the difference between the two.
Fascinating. This seems to be yet more evidence that a potential white genocide does not exclusively concern South Africa. Just like in South Africa, there are many isolated acts of violence in the US such as this one, which have been analysed by experts as not motivated by racial biases, but white inhabitants nevertheless claim that these are part of a larger pattern of mass murder.
And let me guess, the "good ol' boy" gets a standing ovation from the public and is let off the hook by local authorities....again.
It's kind of funny how the left is the most critical of the current government, yet we're the ones that actually follow laws....because we know they actually apply to us.
To be honest it sounds like it was a suicide bombing. The description of the dead individual makes it sound like they were in the car used for the bombing.