A woman pleads guilty to fire that kept a Wyoming abortion clinic from opening for a year

By JESSE BEDAYN
Associated Press

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An abortion opponent has pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge after telling investigators that anxiety and nightmares about Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years led her to break into and burn the planned facility. A judge accepted Lorna Roxanne Green’s agreement with prosecutors at a change-of-plea hearing Thursday. The 22-year-old woman was taken into custody. She faces up to 20 years in prison at sentencing, which is scheduled for Oct. 6. Green told the judge that she regrets her actions. The fire happened weeks before the Casper clinic was set to open last year. The damage kept the it from opening until this year.