A fire at an Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, police said, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections
into the Peoria clinic building at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, police spokesperson Semone Roth said.
Peoria police and fire officials are investigating the blaze, and no suspects have been identified or arrests made, Roth said. The incident occurred two days after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law reproductive health care legislation to protect out-of-state abortion seekers, adding Illinois to the list of states that have placed legal reinforcements around the procedure after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The clinic is currently closed, and the organization is rescheduling patients who had appointments to other health care centers, and offering transportation assistance to those who need it. The Peoria Planned Parenthood location offered medication abortion but was not a site for in-clinic procedures, said Welch, who pledged to prosecute the perpetrator “to the fullest extent of the law.”
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