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Republicans Rejoice As Trump To Pardon Imprisoned Pro-Lifers

Trump Pardons Begin to Flood the News

byAnastasia Boushee
January 26, 2025

On January 23, President Donald Trump pardoned pro-lifers who had been imprisoned by the Biden administration, and Republicans are celebrating.

Nearly two dozen pro-life activists were arrested and politically persecuted under the Biden administration’s insane pro-abortion Department of Justice (DOJ) because of peaceful protests at abortion facilities. Conservatives have begged Trump to pardon all of these peaceful protesters, and he kept that promise on his fourth day in office.

Trump pardoned 23 peaceful pro-life protesters as part of another flurry of executive orders signed on January 23, telling reporters watching the event: “23 people were prosecuted — they should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people, they should not have been prosecuted.”

“This is a great honor to sign this,” Trump said, adding that these political prosecutions were “ridiculous.”

Conservatives were quick to celebrate the pardons.

“Today, freedom rings in our great nation,” Steve Crampton, senior counsel for the Thomas More Society, wrote in a statement. “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.”

“This man is America’s Savior! Trump just signed pardons for Pro-Life protestors locked up under Biden. Promises Made, Promises Kept!” Gunther Eagleman wrote in a post on X, sharing a clip of Trump signing the pardons.

“Justice served. No American should be jailed for defending life and exercising their First Amendment rights. Another win for freedom!” another user wrote.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) also celebrated Trump’s decision to pardon pro-lifers in a post on X just before Trump actually signed the pardons, writing: “A victory for people of faith and the rule of law in America Unjust & unequal application of the FACE Act against Pro Life activists stops under President Trump. Let’s pass my bill with [Chip Roy] to repeal the FACE Act to end these political persecutions forever.”

This news comes after Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) highlighted the plight of numerous imprisoned pro-lifers in a fiery speech on the Senate floor.

“This is a grotesque assault on the principles of this country. That is why I have urged President Donald Trump to pardon all of these pro-life prisoners unjustly persecuted…by the corrupt Biden Administration, and I do mean corrupt,” he said.

Hawley specifically cited the cases of imprisoned pro-lifers like Bevelyn Williams, who was sentenced to 41 months for a peaceful protest, and Lauren Handy, who was sentenced to 57 months for a peaceful protest. He also mentioned people facing prison, such as “89-year-old Eva Edl. Edl, who survived a World War II-era Yugoslavian concentration camp,” according to The Daily Wire, which noted that he “faces 10 years in prison over a conviction in Detroit over a peaceful pro-life protest.”

Hawley also slammed Biden, stating: “From a man who used his power illegitimately to pardon his own family, to pardon his own son, to excuse his own kin of wrongful, willful illegalities, protected drug lords, and killers, and murderers, and kingpins, and yet sent concentration camp survivors to prison because they spoke up for life, it does not get morally worse than that.”

“President Trump can turn the chapter on this dark period of our history. He can right the wrongs that this last administration perpetrated,” Hawley added. “He can begin to restore the requirements that the conscience of our country puts in front of us.”

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