When Julie Burkhardt got woken up by her phone one spring morning last year, she wasn't

exactly expecting good news.

Yeah, I knew it was going to be a problem. That is for sure.

It was 5.30 in the morning. The sun was just rising. It was her contractor on the line.

Julie was getting ready to open up a new medical clinic in Casper, Wyoming.

Workers were putting the finishing touches on the place.

What went through my head as I was answering that call was like,

oh, you know, maybe we had a pipe burst or, you know,

something wrong with the electrical, you you know something that could be easily

fixed and what he said to me he said the Calvary is here and I said what and he said the buildings on fire he said you know

can you get down here when Julie, she saw the structure was still standing at least.

But the windows on one side had been busted out because the heat.

The sheet rock was toast.

In the end, the fire did around $300,000 worth of damage.

The grand opening, Julie had been picturing, it was not going to happen.

This is the point It was not going to happen.

This is the point where I need to explain exactly what kind of clinic Julie was running here. An abortion clinic.

Julie's run abortion clinics all over the country. For years

she worked with George Tiller, the Kansas doctor who was murdered by an

anti-abortion zealot. Julie reopened Tiller's clinic after he was assassinated. This clinic in Wyoming, it was

set to be the lone full-service abortion provider in the whole state. Given all that, it wasn't like a little fire was going to stop her,

even if this fire was meant to send a message.

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