CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A girl was arrested for setting hearth to a constructing in Wyoming that was being renovated to deal with the state’s solely full-service abortion clinic, authorities stated Wednesday.
Lorna Roxanne Inexperienced, 22, of Casper, was arrested on Tuesday, police stated.
The hearth was set on Might 25, 2022, at a stucco home in Casper, the state’s second-largest metropolis and the location of frequent anti-abortion protests.
An individual who known as police stated they heard glass breaking and noticed an individual leaving the world carrying a fuel can and a black bag. Safety video launched by police confirmed a lady in a hooded shirt and masks carrying what gave the impression to be a pink gasoline can by means of a room of the constructing simply earlier than the fireplace.
Nobody was injured within the blaze, which left the home with damaged home windows and smoke injury.
The clinic had been scheduled to open final summer season as the one facility of its form within the state, providing girls’s well being care, household planning and gender-affirming well being care along with abortion companies. However the hearth delayed these plans.
It was then slated to open subsequent month, however that’s doubtful as a result of Gov. Mark Gordon allowed a broad new abortion ban to take impact on Sunday with out his signature. It’s doable {that a} choose who suspended the state’s earlier abortion ban may determine to droop this one, too.
Previous to the most recent ban, a clinic within the mountain city of Jackson offered treatment abortions.