Peoria police and fire officials are investigating a fire at a Peoria, Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic as arson, police said Tuesday.
A fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, Peoria police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections.
Peoria police and fire officials are investigating the blaze, and no suspects have been identified or arrests made, Roth said. No patients or staff were inside during the fire, but it caused "significant damage" to the building, said Jennifer Welch, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois in a statement.
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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