President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-life protesters who allegedly violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Trump said they should not have been prosecuted:
WILL SCHARF, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE STAFF SECRETARY: A set of pardons for peaceful pro-life protesters who were prosecuted by the Biden administration for exercising their First Amendment Rights.TRUMP: Do you know how many?SCHARF: I believe it’s 23, Sir.TRUMP: 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.
The Thomas More Society asked Trump to pardon 21 people:
Joan Bell
Coleman Boyd
Joel Curry
Jonathan Darnel
Eva Edl (89-year-old Holocaust survivor)
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
James Zastrow
I’m trying to find the names of the other two.
The Daily Wire explains more:
Those who were imprisoned over the D.C. protest include Lauren Handy (57 months in prison), John Hinshaw (21 months), William Goodman (27 months), Jonathan Darnell (34 months), Herb Geraghty (27 months), Jean Marshall (24 months), Joan Bell (27 months), Paulette Harlow (24 months), and Heather Idoni (24 months).In Tennessee, a group of pro-life Christians gathered in a hall outside the Carafem Health Center in Mt. Juliet where they sang hymns, prayed, and urged women not to get abortion in March 2021. Calvin Zastrow, 63, is currently serving a six month prison sentence over the protest and 75-year-old Chester Gallagher was sentenced to 16 months though he has not had to report to prison yet. In New York, Bevelyn Beatty Williams was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison after she was convicted of violating the FACE Act after she blocked the entrance to an abortion facility in Manhattan.
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