Michael Bray
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Reverend Michael Bray is an American Lutheran minister who was convicted in 1985, along with two other defendants of two counts of conspiracy and one count of possessing unregistered explosive devices in relation to seven bombings of women's health clinics and three offices of women's health advocacy groups in Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.[1] Bray and his wife, Jayne, are the named defendants in the Supreme Court decision Bray v. Alexandria, a ruling that determined anti-abortion demonstrators could not block entrances to abortion clinics in order to stop patients from entering to receive services.
Michael Bray | |
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Criminal status | served 46 months from 1985 to 1989; living in Wilmington, Ohio since December 2003 |
Spouse | Jayne Bray (1976–present) |
Children | 11 |
Criminal charge | conspiracy and possessing unregistered explosive devices in relation to 10 different bomb attacks |
Penalty | 10 years |
At the time of his conviction he was a member of the Christian extremist terrorist organization Army of God. Because of his involvement with the organization, public acts of terrorism, and suspected authorship of the underground manual Army of God,[2] Bray is considered "the intellectual father of the extreme radical fringe of the antiabortion movement which engages in terrorism."[3] Initially sentenced to ten years in prison, he agreed to a Alford plea and served only 46 months between 1985 and 1989.