ABC 7 LA,CA: First look at damage in massive explosion near Palm Springs fertility clinic

[Jacson6]

This looks like a shaped charge to me, but I'm no expert.

[LoisB]

1. WOW!

[cyclonefence]

2. Probably thought it was an abortion clinic

Dumbasses.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. You're right, this place looks like it helps women achieve pregnancy

Same with Planned Parenthood clinics which offer healthcare, but still attract protesters.

[LiberalArkie]

5. But you do know how the name "American Reproductive Centers" sounds to the looneritcs?

[Rhiannon12866]

7. I was once driving down a main local road when there was a woman holding a large sign saying she'd had an abortion

Standing by the side of the road. I definitely did a double take. I have since learned that there's a Planned Parenthood clinic on a side road there. And of course it attracts protesters even though they don't offer abortions there, it's a health clinic.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

9. Ridiculous that they "wonder" if this was terrorism...

It obviously was, no matter what services this clinic provided. (I’ve read it catered to LGBTQ and/or fertility patients, not specifically an abortion center.)

I delivered my daughter at home and because I’m Rh-negative, I needed to get two shots of RhoGAM (before and after birth). NO ONE would provide this service (no insurance at the time) except Planned Parenthood in Venice, FL. They were AWESOME. Even filed the birth certificate for me for free.

A couple months after I gave birth, that clinic was firebombed and has never been replaced.

The christofascists have been a problem for ages and it’s only gotten worse under the orange shitgibbon. Ironic that the people who claim to be the most Xtian are okay with murder, depriving living kids of food and medical care, and all this other shit, all under the banner of their supposed godliness…

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Excellent points! Planned Parenthood may also be the only place offering women's health care in rural areas

It makes no sense that anyone would protest these clinics, they should be grateful that's they're there, offering all manner of heath care, but all these looneys think about are abortions. And if a pregnancy is in trouble, like a nonviable fetus or an ectopic pregnancy that's necessary to save the life of the woman, but these protesters don't think of that.

And that your local Planned Parenthood was destroyed is a tragedy, it was there to provide necessary heath care, but these fools think that they only exist to provide elective abortions, which most don't.

[LiberalArkie]

4. Weird... Blew up the vehicle, the building and damage to hospital across the street, but

it did not damage the dumpster shed or the pole. Almost looks like a missile went in one side out the other.

The report will be interesting

[Jacson6]

8. That is why I think it was a shaped bomb charge.

It is designed to blow up in one direction to do the most damage on the target. I'm no expert.

[jmbar2]

6. They killed a bunch of embryos

By their criteria, it is mass murder.

[chowder66]

11. Nope. They weren't damaged.

".......but left the IVF lab and all of the stored embryos there unharmed."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/explosion-outside-fertility-clinic-in-california-kills-1-police-say-act-appeared-intentional


Can't say the same for the person who attacked the place.

[jmbar2]

14. Thanks for the clarification

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Looks like pro job: shaped charge into clinic, vehicle blown back to garbage bins at back, not much sideways force. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Most likely 1) Angry customer, 2) Jilted partner, 3) maga thought "abortion clinic", 4) anti-IVF christian absolutist

... in that order.