President Donald Trump pardoned on Thursday nearly two dozen anti-abortion protesters who were charged with Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act violations, marking the latest in a series of clemency actions in Trump’s first week in office.
Trump said from the Oval Office as he signed their pardons that they “should not have been prosecuted.”
“Many of them are elderly people,” Trump said, adding that “this is a great honor to sign this.”
The FACE Act was passed in 1994 and made it a federal crime to obstruct abortion clinics, as well as anti-abortion pregnancy counseling centers and churches. Under President Joe Biden, FACE Act prosecutions multiplied and were directed almost entirely at anti-abortion activists.
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