A pro-life woman who faced imprisonment until July 2027 before President Donald Trump pardoned her said Thursday that she was “shocked” to hear of her pardon — and didn’t believe it at first.
Lauren Handy, 31, said she was on the phone with a loved one when the news came down last month that Trump had pardoned her and 22 other pro-lifers prosecuted by the Biden administration. At the time, Handy was in federal prison in Tallahassee after being convicted over a sit-in at a notorious late-term abortion facility in Washington, D.C., and sentenced to 57 months behind bars.
After a loved one told her on January 23 that Trump had pardoned her, Handy said that she was in “complete disbelief.”
“And I was like, ‘no, that’s an AI video. That’s not true. I’m not being pardoned,’” she said during a video call on Thursday hosted by the Thomas More Society, which…
