An anti-abortion group’s headquarter in Madison, Wisconsin was apparently firebombed, ransacked, and tagged with menacing threats with graffiti late on Saturday night.
Investigators are calling the fire arson, claiming a Molotov cocktail was thrown inside the building but failed to ignite, but a separate fire was then started.
“It appears a specific non-profit that supports anti-abortion measures was targeted,” said Madison Police Department Chief Shon Barnes said in a statement, adding that no one was hurt in the incident.
Outside the building, a graffitied message read, “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.”
“What you’re going to see here is a direct threat against us,” said Wisconsin Family Action group president Julaine Appling. “Imagine if somebody had been in the office when this happened. They would have been hurt.”
The attack comes days after a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion revealed a majority of the Justices had agreed to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
Democrat Gov. Tony Evers condemned the violent attack in a statement Sunday, saying that “hurting others is never the answer,” and urging the left to “work against overturning Roe and attacks on reproductive rights by leading with empathy and compassion.”
Reporting from NewsWars.
