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By: Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, originally published January 23, 2025, The Daily Signal<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a great honor to sign this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Trump signed, he added, \u201cThey\u2019ll be very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pardons came one day before the 52nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2021, the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s Justice Department has brought criminal or civil cases under the\u00a0Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances<\/a>, or FACE, Act against at least 50 pro-life advocates. Twenty-one were convicted and 10 are incarcerated. Three were imprisoned and released.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Former President Joe Biden\u2019s critics accused him and his DOJ of weaponizing the\u00a0FACE Act\u00a0<\/a>against pro-lifers while failing to charge\u00a0pro-abortion<\/a>\u00a0criminals for the hundreds of attacks on pregnancy resource centers since the May 2022 leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump indicated during his campaign he would pardon these pro-lifers quickly upon assuming office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany people are in jail over this,\u201d Trump said in June at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference. \u201cWe\u2019re going to get that taken care of immediately [on the] first day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coleman Boyd, who was sentenced to house arrest for a FACE Act violation, told The Daily Signal he \u201cpraises the Lord\u201d that Trump kept his word in pardoning the convicted pro-lifers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat is a great blessing,\u201d he told The Daily Signal. \u201cI am thankful that my brothers and sisters in prison will be getting out soon and free to continue serving the war outside of those walls. With that said, babies are still being killed every day. Christians need to rise up and rescue those that are being taken to destruction and faithfully love Jesus and love our neighbors and lay down our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, both Republicans, are leading the charge in Congress to repeal the FACE Act so it can\u2019t be weaponized against pro-lifers in future Democrat administrations. Ninety-seven percent of FACE Act prosecutions between the years of 1994 and 2024 were initiated against pro-life Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the convicted pro-life activists<\/a> are represented by the Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based conservative public interest law firm. The firm\u2019s general counsel, Andrew Bath, said the law has been \u201cegregiously abused\u201d and \u201cweaponized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn its face, you would look at it and say that it protects abortion clinics and pregnancy resource centers and churches equally,\u201d Bath told The Daily Signal in November. \u201cBut it hasn\u2019t been used that way. It\u2019s been applied almost exclusively against pro-lifers, and it\u2019s been weaponized, and this weapon has to be removed from the arsenal of those who are willing to abuse government power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the now-pardoned pro-lifers have told The Daily Signal they were confident Trump would make good on his promise to pardon them, and that God would use their incarceration for his glory in the meantime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe does what he says he\u2019s gonna do too, so that\u2019s one of the reasons I trust him,\u201d 75-year-old Paulette Harlow told The Daily Signal in December. \u201cI like when somebody does what they say they\u2019re gonna do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harlow was sentenced to house arrest for violating the FACE Act due to her chronic health conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are thankful that God has stirred the president to pardon those unjustly punished for Jan. 6 and to quickly dismantle the wickedness of DEI and the transgender agenda in our federal government,\u201d Boyd told The Daily Signal on Wednesday. \u201cWe trust God to accomplish what is needful on our behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth (Troutman) Mitchell is a reporter for The Daily Signal and co-host of “The Daily Signal Podcast.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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