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Vandals attacked an anti-abortion pregnancy center in central Virginia early Saturday morning, hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion case.
Surveillance footage released by the Lynchburg Police Department shows a group of four individuals walking away from the Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center at 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Lynchburg authorities also released photos showing multiple broken windows and graffiti on the outside of the building. The vandals left distinct messages with their graffiti, including “If abortion ain’t safe you ain’t safe!” and a tag reading “Jane’s Revenge,” a reference to the pro-abortion rights extremist group that has taken credit for similar attacks on pregnancy centers nationwide.
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The Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center is a faith-based nonprofit crisis pregnancy group. It provides free and confidential services that include pregnancy tests, limited obstetrical ultrasound, parenting and life skills classes, post-abortion support, and counseling referrals. The center does not provide abortion services.
In response to news of the attack, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, condemned the vandalism and pledged that state police resources would respond if needed.
“There is no room for this in Virginia, breaking the law is unacceptable,” the Republican governor tweeted. “This is not how we find common ground. Virginia State Police stands ready to support local law enforcement as they investigate.”
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The Supreme Court overturned the half-century-old ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortions nationwide on Friday, giving states the power to determine limits on when a woman can terminate a pregnancy.
“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” a syllabus of the high court’s opinion said.
