Colorado police and the FBI are investigating a fire at a pregnancy center early Saturday morning as arson after finding graffiti and threatening messages scrawled on the Denver-area building.
The fire broke out at Life Choices in the city of Longmont around 3:17 a.m., police wrote in a Facebook post. The facility “sustained fire and heavy smoke damage” but no injuries were reported.
The fire came hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case precedent that had established abortion as a constitutional right. The 5-4 decision means states will now decide whether they want to ban or limit abortions, and about half of states have already done so or will restrict it further in the near future.
Photos submitted by Longmont Public Safety showed the pregnancy center was vandalized with black paint in several areas.
One message on the side of the building read: “if abortions aren’t safe neither are you,” while another written on the sidewalk read: “BANS OFF OUR BODIES.”
Longmont is about a half-hour outside of Denver, which saw thousands of abortion rights protesters march across the city over the weekend to protest the Supreme Court’s decision.
In April, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed a bill into law guaranteeing access to abortion, setting the stage for the state to become an abortion haven with much of the Midwest’s abortion clinics expected to soon stop offering the procedure.
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Colorado pregnancy center fire investigated as arson https://t.co/uN8ncnrdQI pic.twitter.com/vDnpdfj2xB
— The Hill (@thehill) June 26, 2022
Completely unacceptable.
It's time to pour resources into pregnancy centers. Repair them. Build them bigger. Provide security. Crisis pregnancy centers are at the front lines of caring for women and children, and we can't allow them to be destroyed. https://t.co/bysh1GrCMk
— David French (@DavidAFrench) June 26, 2022
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