# Michael Bray

michael bray is an American Lutheran minister who was convicted in 1985 of two counts of conspiracy and one count of possessing unregistered explosive devices in relation to ten bombings of women's health clinics and offices of liberal advocacy groups in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. He is considered "the intellectual father of the extreme radical fringe of the antiabortion movement which engages in terrorism." Initially sentenced to ten years in prison, he agreed to a plea bargain and served 46 months from 1985 to 1989. He and his wife, Jayne, are named defendants in the Supreme Court decision Bray v.