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A Marshfield man planned on taking a handgun into a Madison Planned Parenthood clinic Thursday "to lay out abortionists because they are killing babies," according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

Ralph Lang, 63, was charged with attempting to injure, intimidate and interfere with persons providing reproductive health services, according to the complaint.

According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Madison, Lang was arrested at a Motel 6 in Madison Wednesday night after his handgun accidentally discharged as he loaded it. The bullet went through the door and into a room across the hall that was rented but not occupied.

Police were called when Lang told a motel clerk that the gun went off, and he was worried that the bullet might have struck someone.

When an officer asked him why he had the gun, he replied with the statement about shooting abortion providers at the Planned Parenthood clinic.

Lang also said he traveled to Madison last week with the gun but did not shoot anybody because he "was not 100% in sync with God."

He said he bought the gun about two years ago "to help end abortion" after being arrested during a protest at an abortion clinic.

Lang was in custody Thursday in the Dane County Jail.