Bombing a Fertility Clinic Won’t Stop Women from Needing or Seeking Reproductive Care — Whether It’s IVF or Abortion

A terrorist attack won’t shake our determination. Women will not be silenced, stopped, or scared away from the care they need to survive, to heal, to create life, or to live freely.

The bombing outside the American Reproductive Centers (ARC) in Palm Springs on May 17 was meant to terrorize. It was meant to scare us into silence. But women are not so easily broken.

The attack, which took the life of the suspected bomber and injured four others, rattled the nation. Not because we’ve never seen this kind of violence before—but because …