A Wyoming woman sentenced to five years in prison for setting fire to the state’s only abortion clinic has been ordered by a federal judge to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution to the clinic operator, its insurance company and the building owner, the Associated Press reports.
Lorna Green admitted to making the two-and-a-half-hour drive from Laramie to Casper on May 25, 2022, breaking into the building that was under construction to become the Wellspring Health Access, scheduled to open in that June. Green then poured gasoline around the interior of the building and set it afire. While Green said she was anti-abortion, she never expressed such views or any politically militant views online; she claimed in her trial she was experiencing anxiety and nightmares about the clinic’s opening.
A student at Casper College, Green will repay $240,000 to the insurance company that covered the fire damage claim, as well as $33,500 to the building’s owner and $24,500 to the woman who founded and led of the clinic. After the attack, the clinic finally opened in April 2023, becoming the only operating abortion clinic in the state.