The Curse of Anti-Life Ideology

Guy Edward Bartkus , 25 , died in a bomb blast outside a California IVF clinic in what authorities describe as an act of terrorism.

Frida Ghitis : Bartkus was not insane; he was too rational, too consumed by ideas, disconnected from society.

She says Bartkus ’s motives and those of the anti-life websites he seems to have visited are the opposite of pro-life groups, who wish to preserve life instead of destroying it.

Ghitis says anti-lifers are by nature nihilistic and often engage in violence, sabotage or terrorism.

The anti-life movement, in the broad sense of the word, is neither small in number nor recent.

It has been a force in American life at least since the 1960s and it will continue to be so for decades to come.

We cannot wave a magic wand and convert young men and women like Guy Bartkus to the pro-life position, but we can continue to live in a hopeful manner.