Report: Trump To Pardon Pro-Lifers Prosecuted By Biden Lawfare

President Donald Trump is expected to follow through on his promise to get pro-lifers jailed by the Biden regime for their peaceful protests “out of the gulags” this week via presidential pardon.

The pardons are not only significant for the pro-life movement, which is amping up for its annual March For Life in Washington, D.C. this Friday, but also for Americans who hoped Trump would remedy the havoc wreaked by the Biden administration’s partisan prosecutions.

As of President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, the federal government had brought fewer than 100 FACE Act prosecutions since the law’s inception in 1994. By 2024, the Democrat regime opened 60 cases, only five of which zeroed in on pro-abortion extremists. The other 55 targeted peaceful pro-lifers.

The pardons, according to reporting from the Daily Wire, will extend to lawfare victims like Lauren Handy and 75-year-old Paulette Harlow, who are currently serving sentences in federal prisons for convictions brought under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Bevelyn Williams, a mother who runs a Christian nonprofit that aims to help families in need, is also expected to benefit from the pardon. Williams faced a 41-month prison sentence handed down by a New York judge who “made it very clear in the courtroom that she was going to [make an] example out” of the pro-life activist for daring to protest at a Manhattan abortion facility in June 2020. 

The Thomas More Society, which defended several of the peaceful protestors throughout the lawfare, submitted petitions for pardons to Trump last week on behalf of nearly two dozen people who they say were “unjustly imprisoned” and “unjustly convicted” simply because they prayed, sang, and evangelized at abortion facilities.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, reintroduced legislation days before Trump’s executive order that, if passed, would repeal the FACE Act. Roy is among several Republicans who have joined pro-life advocacy groups in pointing out not only the unconstitutionality of the law but the abuse of it at Biden’s direction.

“There’s nothing economic or interstate about folks conducting a sit-in at an abortion clinic, and that’s really what the essence of FACE was always about. Moreover, since the Dobbs decision in 2022 clarifying the fact that abortion never was a federal constitutional right, the whole purpose for the FACE Act has vanished, and consequently the law itself ought to be done away with,” Thomas More Society Senior Counsel Stephen Crampton told The Federalist over the phone.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.