Posted on 05/18/2025 9:57:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
PALM SPRINGS — Palm Springs was left reeling from a bomb explosion Saturday outside a fertility clinic that caused damage for blocks and has been classified as an intentional act of terrorism.
One person was killed in the blast. Officials would not confirm he was the bomber but said there is no longer a threat to the Palm Springs area.
The bombing shattered the Saturday morning quiet, with many residents thinking they felt an earthquake.
“I’m really saddened by today’s attack on our city,” Palm Springs Police Chief Andrew Mills said. “But I am also hopeful because our city will rise.”
There was extensive damage to American Reproductive Centers, a fertility clinic and in vitro fertilization lab across the street from Desert Regional Medical Center. An office building two blocks from the blast had its windows blown out, as did a Denny’s five blocks away.
The site says that the clinic has helped more than 2,000 families become parents and highlights its work with LGBTQ+ families.
“This was a place of hope. This is a building people go to to start and expand families,” Palm Springs mayor pro tem Naomi Soto said. “This is a building where hope lives.”
Former patients expressed horror at what happened.
“All he’s doing is giving women hope to have babies,” former patient Staci Franklin said of Abdallah, whose clinic helped her get pregnant with her daughter, now 16.
Franklin said she and her husband spent the hours after the explosion debating possible motives, speculating about a disgruntled patient or an extremist from the far fringe of the antiabortion movement, who might have sought to destroy embryos to “make a statement.”
“If that was their motivation, I’m glad they failed,” she said.
Former American Reproductive Centers patient Jaclyn Ferber Calonne was at a baby shower when she started receiving text messages about...
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Perps dead.
The main suspect is doofus who hates the human race button chicken to off himself. Also a typical leftist.
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