2025 Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing

2025 Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing
230m
251yds
LocationAmerican Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs
1199 North Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, California, United States
Coordinates33°50′21″N 116°32′45″W / 33.83917°N 116.54583°W / 33.83917; -116.54583
DateMay 17, 2025
10:52 a.m. (PDT)
Attack type
Domestic terrorism, Suicide bombing
WeaponCar bomb
Deaths1 (the perpetrator)
Injured4
PerpetratorGuy Edward Bartkus
MotiveSuicidal ideation, promortalism, antinatalism, "anti-pro-life ideology", efilism

On May 17, 2025, a car bombing occurred at a reproductive center in Palm Springs, California, United States, leaving one person near the vehicle, later confirmed to be the perpetrator, dead and four others injured. The explosion was described as one of the largest bombing investigations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has investigated in Southern California since the Aliso Viejo package bombing that killed one person and seriously injured two others in 2018. The perpetrator was identified as Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old man from Twentynine Palms, California. He was the only person killed in the attack, and his motives stemmed from the ideologies of promortalism, "anti-pro-life", and efilism.