I’ll share my thoughts here in this column, as an antinatalist activist, on the bombing of an IVF clinic in California by Guy Edward Bartkus on June 17, 2025, which killed him and injured 4 people. If we were to convince people of something that goes against the belief they haven’t found a reason to oppose, which in this case is that it’s good, or not bad, to create humans and other animals, we need to get them sitting at the table of discussion and ready to listen to us.

The Street Outreach Team at Antinatalism Japan had its 20th street outreach event in the afternoon of Sunday, July 13, 2025, near the east exit of Ikebukuro Station in Toshima, Tokyo. 3 ANJ members joined the event to hold up 6 different signs addressing the moral significance of procreation and lack of consent, drawing the attention of many passers-by. While no one expressed their complete agreement with antinatalism, at least two people showed a certain level of sympathy