{"id":324926,"date":"2025-01-21T18:07:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=324926"},"modified":"2025-03-04T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:55:23","slug":"friends-family-wait-trump-promise-pardon-prolifers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/friends-family-wait-trump-promise-pardon-prolifers\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and family urge President Trump to fulfill his promise to pardon pro-life activists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, a newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump issued pardons for many individuals involved with the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. However, to the disappointment of many, he did not issue pardons for individuals involved in pro-life activism who were convicted of violating the FACE Act and “conspiracy against rights<\/a>” \u2014 the latter of which is an 1870 law passed to prosecute members of the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

Trump’s promise<\/strong><\/p>\n

On June 22, 2024, months prior to his election, President Trump promised<\/a> to get pro-lifers “out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong” during a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition. As Live Action News previously reported, Trump specifically mentioned\u00a075-year-old Paulette Harlow, “who was sentenced<\/a>\u00a0to 24 months in prison for conspiracy to violate civil rights and violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Harlow had been on house arrest due to\u00a0poor health<\/a> following her November 2023 conviction, but Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced her to serve out the remainder of her 24-month sentence in federal prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release.”<\/p>\n

Trump reportedly stated, “Paulette is one of many peaceful pro-lifers who Joe Biden has rounded up, sometimes with SWAT teams, and thrown them in jail. Many people are in jail over this.\u00a0 \u2026We\u2019re going to get that taken care of immediately \u2014 first day.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that he would \u201crapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who\u2019s unjustly victimized by the Biden regime, including Paulette, so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a press release<\/a> from the Thomas More Society, attorneys from the pro-life legal organization submitted “formal requests for presidential pardons” to the incoming Trump administration on January 15, 2025. The release states (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

The pardon request package includes 21 individual pardon requests, one for each pro-life advocate, outlining the specific facts of each case, their upstanding personal and moral character, and the reasons why President Trump should grant a presidential pardon. The pardon request package also includes a cover letter outlining the legal rationale for the requested pardons and explains how the Biden DOJ routinely and unconstitutionally weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and \u201cConspiracy Against Rights\u201d statute against peaceful pro-life advocates.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 21 pro-life advocates for whom Thomas More Society has submitted pardon requests are: Joan Bell<\/strong><\/a>, Coleman Boyd<\/strong><\/a>, Joel Curry<\/strong><\/a>, Jonathan Darnel<\/strong><\/a>, Eva Edl<\/strong><\/a>, Chester Gallagher<\/strong><\/a>, William Goodman<\/strong><\/a>, Dennis Green<\/strong><\/a>, Lauren Handy<\/strong><\/a>, Paulette Harlow<\/strong><\/a>, John Hinshaw<\/strong><\/a>, Heather Idoni<\/strong><\/a>, Jean Marshall<\/strong><\/a>, Fr. Fidelis Moscinski<\/strong><\/a>, Justin Phillips<\/strong><\/a>, Paul Place<\/strong><\/a>, Paul Vaughn<\/strong><\/a>, Bevelyn Beatty Williams<\/strong><\/a>, Calvin Zastrow<\/strong>, Eva Zastrow<\/strong>, and James Zastrow<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dear @POTUS<\/a> @realDonaldTrump<\/a>: It\u2019s time to free the pro-life prisoners. Please pardon these heroic peaceful pro-lifers who have been branded felons by Biden\u2019s DOJ. https:\/\/t.co\/VeQjgcFcpy<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8sUlYx6w10<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Thomas More Society (@ThomasMoreSoc) January 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n