This story is so wild because despite the bomber being anti-natalist, people are falsely claiming that he was instead a pro-lifer.
And now that they nuked the anti-natalist sub reddit, you can't show people how crazy their philosophy is.
These people are honestly something else. That sub was one of those places you would go to hate read. These people think it's unethical to bring children into this world. They would write posts where they are absolutely seething because their coworker is having a baby shower or something.
This is kinda relevant to the adoption and foster care community believe it or not because we get these weirdos as prospective foster/adoptive parents.
If you're interested in reading about one of these anti-natalist people trying to foster to adopt, you can read this book called Stranger Care but I'll give you the summary anyways.
So you have this married couple and the wife wants to have children and the husband is an anti-natalist so he does not want to have biological children. He basically lectures his wife on how it's unethical to bring more children into this world. So they end up compromising and agree to try fostering to adopt.
They become registered foster parents and start their journey. Social workers call them about placements and the wife is against the idea of fostering an older child - she has her heart set on a baby. The husband is more open minded and is willing to take on an older child but she still insists on a baby. They reject placements that aren't exactly what the wife is looking for. On one occasion social workers think they found a baby and initially the wife is so excited but then it's revealed that the "baby" was actually a severely neglected toddler and initially mistaken for a baby because they were malnourished. She is disgusted by the idea of fostering a "broken" or traumatized child so rejects this placement as well.
The couple starts to get frustrated and wonders if they'll ever get an "unbroken" baby. They don't want an abused, neglected, traumatized or drug-withdrawal baby. They want a perfect newborn. And eventually they get a call and a social worker found an unbroken baby girl. The wife is over the moon.
The wife falls in love with this baby. The baby is a placement from a struggling single mother who may have been dealing with an abusive partner and some substance abuse issues. The baby is healthy but the mother wants to reunify with her baby. The mother slowly makes the journey to get her life back together and reunify and the foster mother is seething about it. She looks down on this woman. She sees her as less capable and less worthy of motherhood than herself. She prides herself in all the care and effort she puts into her foster daughter including all the nice things she can buy her. She struggles with the idea of supporting the reunification case plan. She almost can't believe that social workers would decide to reunify mother and daughter. How could they possibly believe the bio mother was better than her? She finds herself wishing the mother would relapse and the reunification would fail. The mom does hit some bumps in the road but eventually the baby is reunited with her. This absolutely devastates the foster mother.
The foster mother ends the book saying she's done with fostering. It took but only one foster care placement for them to be absolutely fatigued by the foster care system and they throw in the towel.
And as a former foster kid, this is what vexes me about foster parents. They act as if foster care is like a baby dispensing machine. They pride themselves in their saviour complex but often aren't interested in helping the children who need it the most (the abused, neglected, traumatized, etc). They are obsessed with babies and young children and overlook older kids/teens. They also seem incredibly apathetic to the trauma of family separation. They don't empathize with struggling birth mothers. It's like they see foster care as poor man's surrogacy.
