Twenty-three pro-life activists who were prosecuted for their anti-abortion activism are now exonerated after Donald Trump’s pardons Thursday. The pardons, which Trump signed on the eve of the March for Life in Washington, are a sign of solidarity from the president with the pro-life movement.
Trump told the press, “We released 23 people that were unjustly put in and having to do with pro-life. And, they will be released and they’ll be out very shortly. It was disgraceful what happened.”
But who are the pro-life activists that Trump pardoned, and why were they prosecuted?
All of the activists were prosecuted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) of 1994, a law signed by President Bill Clinton which prohibits blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic or otherwise using intimidation, trespassing and a variety of other means to make it…
