President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-lifers who were convicted for actions including praying outside abortion clinics and encouraging women in unplanned pregnancies to choose life.
“They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted,” the president said.
“This is a great honor to sign this,” he said.
After Trump signed, he added, “They’ll be very happy.”
The pardons came one day before the 52nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Since 2021, the Biden-Harris administration’s Justice Department has brought criminal or civil cases under the Freedom of Clinic Access, or FACE Act, against at least 50 pro-life advocates. Twenty-one were convicted and ten are incarcerated. Three were imprisoned and released.
