FBI Arrests Second Suspect in Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Bombing

Federal authorities have arrested Daniel Jongyon Park, 32, in connection with the bombing of the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, which killed the attacker Guy Edward Bartkus and destroyed the clinic. Park was apprehended at New York’s JFK Airport after being deported from Poland and is charged with providing material support to terrorists by supplying explosive materials to Bartkus, including ammonium nitrate. The two suspects reportedly connected through online forums promoting anti-natalism, a fringe ideology opposing childbirth, and collaborated on testing explosives prior to the attack. Authorities found bomb-making instructions at Park’s home similar to those used in the Oklahoma City bombing, and investigations are ongoing into their motives. The FBI described the bombing as potentially the largest in Southern California, and Bartkus had attempted to livestream the explosion while leaving behind nihilistic and anti-pro-life writings. The attack caused significant property damage and public fear, although no clinic patients were harmed and embryos were saved.