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(WND News Center) President Donald Trump has pardoned a number of pro-life activists who had been put in the judicial system’s bull’s-eye by Joe Biden, whose prosecutors charged them and jailed them for advocating for the lives of the unborn.
Jor-El Godsey, who heads Heartbeat International, expressed thankfulness for the actions of the president.
“When pro-lifers are unfairly targeted, and punished excessively, for their peaceful protests, then presidential pardons are a must. We are grateful for President Trump’s effort to right the wrongs of the activist Biden administration,” Godsey said.
Trump, as well as Vice President JD Vance, are scheduled to speak to pro-life advocates at the annual March for Life, the nation’s largest annual pro-life demonstration, either through a video or in-person, just a day from now.
“We thank President Trump for immediately delivering on his promise to free pro-life protesters who targeted and imprisoned by Biden’s Department of Justice. Pro-life moms, grandmothers and even Eva Edl, a Communist prison camp survivor, were thrown in jail for peacefully protesting abortion. As if that were not enough, aggressive sentences were handed down, like five years for Lauren Handy who sought to expose evidence of late term and potentially illegal abortions in the nation’s capital,” explained SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser.
“President Trump has consistently taken a strong stance that weaponizing the government to go after pro-life advocates and other ideological opponents is wrong. There is no question these prosecutions were political. Even ex-FBI director Chris Wray admits the overwhelming majority of abortion-related threats and violence since Dobbs is directed at pro-life Americans – not done by them. We look forward to the end of Biden’s anti-life discrimination under Attorney General Pam Bondi.”
She continued, ““In 2020 President Trump made history as the first president to speak in person at the March for Life. We are thankful he and Vice President Vance continue to prioritize this massive annual human rights demonstration, which brings everyday Americans from all over the country to raise their voices for LIFE. Together Trump and Vance are restoring the gains we were making for unborn children and their mothers before Biden took over and pushed abortion into every aspect of the government. The difference from the previous administration couldn’t be clearer.”
Some two dozen people who had been convicted for “blocking access to and temporarily shutting down” abortion business operations were charged and many of them had still been in jail.
“They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people,” Trump said. “This is a great honor to sign this.”
Those who were pardoned had been targeted by Biden using the FACE Act, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances. The law was supposed to protect “access” to abortion businesses alongside church and pro-life organizations, but Biden’s biased agenda meant that more than 9 of 10 cases brought under the law targeted the pro-life Americans.
It was the lawyers from the Thomas More Society who had submitted to Trump’s administration a formal request for pardons, naming Joan Bell, Coleman Boyd, Joel Curry, Jonathan Darnel, Eva Edl, Chester Gallagher, William Goodman, Dennis Green, Lauren Handy, Paulette Harlow, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, Jean Marshall, Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Justin Phillips, Paul Place, Paul Vaughn, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, Calvin Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, and James Zastrow.
The lawyers explained, “These pro-life Americans are deserving of full and unconditional pardons.”
“Today, freedom rings in our great nation. The heroic peaceful pro-lifers unjustly imprisoned by Biden’s Justice Department will now be freed and able to return home to their families, eat a family meal, and enjoy the freedom that should have never been taken from them in the first place,”: said society lawyer Steve Crampton.
“These heroic peaceful pro-lifers were treated shamefully by Biden’s DOJ, with many of them branded felons and losing many rights that we take for granted as American citizens. Today, their precious freedom is restored. What happened to them can never be erased, but today’s pardons are a huge step towards restoring justice. Thank you to President Trump and his team for righting these grievous wrongs of the previous administration.”
Society Executive Vice President Peter Breen said, “What happened to these peaceful pro-life individuals must never happen again. We urge Congress to act swiftly in repealing the FACE Act to make sure that the Justice Department can never again weaponize this law to target peaceful pro-lifers with severe charges.”
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