Fatal explosion outside fertility clinic (bomb)

[Sieg67]

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/g-s1-67455/investigators-respond-to-scene-of-an-explosion-rocking-palm-springs-calif

Don't ask me why the formatting is weird.  It just happened when I pasted the text and I'm too lazy the fix it.


 

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — An explosion killed a person and heavily damaged a fertility clinic Saturday in the upscale California city of Palm Springs in what the FBI characterized as an "intentional act of terrorism."

Akil Davis, the head of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, said in the evening that the clinic was deliberately targeted, while declining to elaborate on how authorities have reached a conclusion on a motive.

Authorities were still working to confirm the identity of the person who died at the scene. Davis would not directly say whether that person was the suspect but said authorities were not searching for a suspect.

Davis also said four people were hurt but provided no additional details on the severity of the injuries. Authorities were also investigating the possibility that the explosion was being livestreamed.

The FBI said it was sent investigators, including bomb technicians, to the scene.

Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills said in a statement that the blast "appears to be an intentional act of violence" and several buildings were damaged, some severely.

"There has been one fatality, the person's identity is not known," Mills said.

The act was being investigated as a possible car explosion, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss preliminary information from an ongoing investigation.

One of the officials told AP that investigators believe the person who died was likely the person who set off the explosion, but they cautioned that the investigation was still in its early stages.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said federal agents were working to learn more, adding, "Let me be clear: the Trump administration understands that women and mothers are the heartbeat of America. Violence against a fertility clinic is unforgivable."

The FBI's Los Angeles field office said via the social platform X that "investigators, bomb technicians & an evidence response team" were among assets that were deployed. Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also assisting.

The city of Palm Springs said the explosion happened at 11 a.m. and residents were asked to avoid the area around North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive.

Dr. Maher Abdallah, who runs the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic, confirmed that his facility was damaged. He told AP in a phone interview that all staffers were safe and accounted for. The explosion damaged the practice's office space, where it conducts consultations with patients, but the IVF lab and the stored embryos were spared.

"I really have no clue what happened," Abdallah said. "Thank God today happened to be a day that we have no patients."

Aerial video showed a burned-out car in a parking lot behind the building that housed the fertility clinic's office space. The blast caved in the roof and blew a wide debris field across a sidewalk and four lanes of the street on the other side of the structure.

Rhino Williams, 47, said he was chatting with customers at a restaurant he helps manage inside the Skylark Hotel just over a block away when he heard a huge boom. Everything rattled, Williams said, and he sprinted to the scene to see if anyone was in need of help.

Williams saw a large dark gray plume of smoke and covered his nose with his shirt as he smelled burning plastic and rubber. He said he saw a building had "blown out" into the street, with bricks and debris scattered everywhere, and he spotted a car's front axle on fire in the parking lot.

He said it was the only car in the lot that he saw. He ran into the building, calling out and peering behind the counter to see if anyone was inside. He did not hear a response and did not see anyone behind the counter.

Williams then ran around to check on other buildings. Multiple windows of the neighboring liquor store were also blown out, he said. Once he saw authorities arrive, he headed back to the hotel.

Nima Tabrizi, 37, of Santa Monica, said he was inside a cannabis dispensary nearby when he felt a massive explosion.

"The building just shook, and we go outside and there's massive cloud smoke," Tabrizi said. "Crazy explosion. It felt like a bomb went off. ... We went up to the scene, and we saw human remains."

Palm Springs is about a two-hour drive east of Los Angeles. Its known for upscale resorts, golf courses and a history of celebrity residents.

 

[1pooh4u]

Even when something terrible happens they have to come out and officially say some Handmaid Tale shit. After reading that all I heard was “under his eye” 

they can’t just say it’s an active investigation they gotta say “women and mothers are the heartbeat of America” foh 

[Sieg67]

1 hour ago, 1pooh4u said:

Even when something terrible happens they have to come out and officially say some Handmaid Tale shit. After reading that all I heard was “under his eye” 

they can’t just say it’s an active investigation they gotta say “women and mothers are the heartbeat of America” foh 

Praise be.

[scoobdog]

It’s worth noting that this being compared to the Salon Meritage shooting in Seal Beach 14 years ago.  I can’t imagine blowing up a fertility being much of a political statement, but I can imagine a million reasons somoene might have a personal grudge.

[Jman]

This is usually the kind of violence you hear threatened against abortion clinics.  I have to concur that violence against a fertility clinic is more akin to violence against a dermatologist.  It may not be political due to the messaging, but rather some sort of issue with someone working there.

Also way to make it fucking weird Bondi.  Three decades of apologizing for the Trump administration when this is all said and done.

[Sieg67]

At first I thought the suspect confused it as an abortion clinic but that doesn't seem to be the case.
“I figured I would just make a recording explaining why I’ve decided to bomb an IVF building, or clinic,” the bombing suspect stated at the starting of the recording. “Basically, it just comes down to I’m angry that I exist and that, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here.”

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/what-is-pro-mortalist-palm-spring-explosion-suspect-called-himself-anti-life-in-chilling-confession-video/ar-AA1EYX2V

"The suspect stated in writings or recordings that he was against bringing people into the world against their will, according to the sources familiar with the investigation."
So uh, that covers everybody. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/palm-springs-explosion-riverside-county-southern-california/

[[classic swim]]

Sick puppy.

[1pooh4u]

9 minutes ago, Sieg67 said:

At first I thought the suspect confused it as an abortion clinic but that doesn't seem to be the case.
“I figured I would just make a recording explaining why I’ve decided to bomb an IVF building, or clinic,” the bombing suspect stated at the starting of the recording. “Basically, it just comes down to I’m angry that I exist and that, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here.”

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/what-is-pro-mortalist-palm-spring-explosion-suspect-called-himself-anti-life-in-chilling-confession-video/ar-AA1EYX2V

"The suspect stated in writings or recordings that he was against bringing people into the world against their will, according to the sources familiar with the investigation."
So uh, that covers everybody. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/palm-springs-explosion-riverside-county-southern-california/

So this was some sort of antinatalist idiot “durr nO OnE AsKeD mE tO bE bOrN!” I dislike those dum dums

[rpgamer]

The damage is unfortunate, but, probably did the rest of us a favor by removing himself.

[Jman]

Good old fashioned misanthropy.

[1pooh4u]

Like htf does one ask permission to be born? 

[MasqueradeOverture]

It's called anti-natalism and the guy has a point.

Except for the bombing an IVF clinic part. Microplastics will make everyone sterile eventually, just wait it out before the silicon genophage hits.

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

It's called anti-natalism and the guy has a point.

Except for the bombing an IVF clinic part. Microplastics will make everyone sterile eventually, just wait it out before the silicon genophage hits.

The guy doesn’t have a point. That’s not how life works. Can it be argued that it’s irresponsible to have children in today’s world? Idk, maybe, but it’s impossible to get permission to be born. It’s a dumb fuckin argument. 

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

Thing is you never know. Could be everyone does ask to be born into the world and maybe just doesn't remember doing so because a consequence of being born is having all prior memories wiped out. Kind reminds me of the movie Soul that I just watched a little while ago. This guy clearly never found his "spark".

[André Toulon]

Oh no, here we go into the philosophy of existence...

You're all playing Roy, and you're all gonna die at the carpet store

[1pooh4u]

Yeah I’m not getting into philosophy when humans like all other animals have it ingrained into us to further their species. Our only difference is having (supposedly) the intelligence to choose when starting a family would be appropriate 

[Jman]

Regardless of the philosophical approach you have, it still doesn’t give you the right to harm others.  Your pondering your own life ends at your life.  Leave the people in that clinic out of it.

[katt_goddess]

59 minutes ago, André Toulon said:

Oh no, here we go into the philosophy of existence...

You're all playing Roy, and you're all gonna die at the carpet store

Speak for yourself, fleshbag. I never went back to the carpet store!

That said, if you feel that strongly that you never asked to be born, you don't blow something up. You live longer than everyone else in your life and make it the world's problem. 

[[classic swim]]

He blew his body and dickhole off with a pipe bomb like the brokenhead neurological mishap that he was. 

All you gotta do is check off a little box that says he couldn’t think the right thinks like everyone else. You’re done after that.

[1pooh4u]

There’s an easy solution for people mad about being born without being asked. We might have booths dedicated to it soon enough like in that movie Soylent Green. We’ll be able to go to the euthanasia center for a small fee ofc. 

[MasqueradeOverture]

6 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

The guy doesn’t have a point. That’s not how life works. Can it be argued that it’s irresponsible to have children in today’s world? Idk, maybe, but it’s impossible to get permission to be born. It’s a dumb fuckin argument. 

Which is why no one should be born

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

Which is why no one should be born

lol that’s silly Stahp it 

[scoobdog]

11 hours ago, Sieg67 said:

At first I thought the suspect confused it as an abortion clinic but that doesn't seem to be the case.
“I figured I would just make a recording explaining why I’ve decided to bomb an IVF building, or clinic,” the bombing suspect stated at the starting of the recording. “Basically, it just comes down to I’m angry that I exist and that, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here.”

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/what-is-pro-mortalist-palm-spring-explosion-suspect-called-himself-anti-life-in-chilling-confession-video/ar-AA1EYX2V

"The suspect stated in writings or recordings that he was against bringing people into the world against their will, according to the sources familiar with the investigation."
So uh, that covers everybody. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/palm-springs-explosion-riverside-county-southern-california/

Well, that’s a thing apparently.