Months after a terrorist bombing devastated a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, American Reproductive Centers (ARC) says its labs are back online — and its first embryo transfer since the attack has resulted in a pregnancy.
In a Facebook update, the clinic said both its IVF and Andrology labs are “officially operational” and shared a string of milestones since reopening: the first egg retrieval on July 24, 2025; the first testicular sperm extraction (TESE) on Aug. 2; and the first frozen embryo transfer (FET) on Aug. 7.
ARC also reported that five patients have undergone embryo thaw since the incident and “every embryo survived the thaw and was transferred successfully,” with embryo quality “exactly as good as when they were first frozen.” The first of those transfers has already resulted in a pregnancy, and the clinic said it is awaiting results on the remaining four.
This announcement comes just months after the May 17 car bomb explosion outside ARC’s previous facility on North Indian Canyon Drive.
The FBI called it “an intentional act of terrorism,” saying the blast destroyed the clinic, killed the bomber and injured several people, with debris scattered over more than 250 yards. A witness reported finding a smartphone set on a tripod pointed toward the blast area, and police asked neighbors to leave potential evidence in place for investigators.
Federal officials identified the bomber as 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus. They later arrested Daniel Jongyon Park, 32, of the Seattle area, at JFK Airport after he was deported from Poland.
Prosecutors alleged Park supplied 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus and that the two shared an extremist ideology that people should not be born without their consent. Park, who faced a federal charge of providing material support to a terrorist, later died at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Park died by suicide from blunt traumatic injuries. The Los Angeles Times reported that he jumped from an interior balcony at MDC–Los Angeles.
Patients have since expressed gratitude as treatment resumes and embryos survive, and ARC says it is proud of the “outstanding quality of care” it continues to provide as it rebuilds — now with a new pregnancy to show for it.
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