President Donald Trump has announced that he will be issuing pardons for pro-life activists who have been wrongly imprisoned by the former administration’s Justice Department in a matter of days. If you didn’t already love all of the stuff the president has accomplished in these very early days of his time in office, this will seal the deal. We’re witnessing leadership defend the rights of American citizens that former President Joe Biden violated. Righting wrongs that should have never been done in the first place.
We as Christians are called to stand up for the dignity of life, particularly that of pre-born citizens who have the right to life, but have no voice with which to stand up for themselves. A person is murdered during the horrific act of abortion. We must do whatever we can to prevent this travesty from continuing. However, when I say that, I don’t mean using violence. That accomplishes nothing and makes us just as bad as the villains we’re fighting against.
via The Daily Wire:
The plight of the imprisoned pro-lifers is an immediate priority to Trump’s team, and they will likely be pardoned within days, two sources with knowledge of the matter shared with The Daily Wire. The revelation comes a day ahead of the 52nd annual March for Life, a massive peaceful demonstration that takes place in Washington D.C. to bring awareness to the many babies whose lived are ended through abortions. The president is expected to appear at the rally in a pre-recorded video. Trump issued a sweeping executive order on Monday that granted full pardons for about 1,500 criminal defendants related to the January 6 Capitol Riot, making good on a campaign promises to free those targeted by the Biden administration. His actions prompted many in the pro-life community to hope that he would similarly pardon the pro-life activists targeted by the Biden Justice Department under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
“I hope President Trump will shortly pardon the pro-life prisoners unjustly targeted & jailed by the Biden Administration,” Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley stated in a post published on “X” on Wednesday. “They deserve to be free.”
A report from The Daily Signal stated on Thursday that GOP Sen. Mike Lee from Utah had just re-introduced a piece of legislation that would put the nail in the proverbial coffin for the FACE Act for good. Let’s hope it passes and gets signed into law so the Church can be all about the business of saving babies.
“While President [Donald] Trump is stopping these outrageous prosecutions, we should ensure that no future administration has the ability to persecute Americans through unequal application of the law,” Lee said to the outlet. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy introduced a campaign bill in the House earlier this week, going on to explain that the GOP needs to take full advantage of the control they have over Congress and the White House. I could not agree more.
Trump has repeatedly criticized the Biden DOJ for targeting pro-lifers on “outrageous charges,” promising on the campaign trail to “rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who’s unjustly victimized by the Biden regime…so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.”
The pardons would bring immediate relief to those currently imprisoned including Lauren Handy (57 months in prison), John Hinshaw (21 months), Jonathan Darnell (34 months), Herb Geraghty (27 months), Jean Marshall (24 months), Joan Bell (27 months), Paulette Harlow (24 months), Bevelyn Williams (41 months), Heather Idoni (24 months), and Calvin Zastrow (6 months). These defendants were imprisoned over protests at abortion facilities in Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and New York.
“The D.C. protest involved a group of pro-life protesters singing songs, praying, locking arms in front of the facility’s staff entrance, and attaching themselves with ropes and chains to block doors inside the infamous Surgi-Clinic in October 2020, a late term abortion facility. 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,” The Daily Wire stated.
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Many of the defendants involved have already been in prison for over a year, though they have a lot of time left to serve.
“I would love to be home with my family,” 59-year-old Heather Idoni stated back in September. “I would love to hold my new grandson.” Idoni was handed a two-year prison sentence because of the protest in D.C. and was then slapped with an additional eight months from the Nashville protest.
“The pardons would also bring relief to those awaiting sentencing, including 89-year-old Eva Edl. Edl, who survived a World War II-era Yugoslavian concentration camp, was convicted in Detroit and could be sentenced to over a decade in prison over her conviction on FACE and a felony conspiracy charge,” the DW reported.
This is great news for freedom of speech and religion along with being a beacon of light and hope for those who have paid a steep price for trying to save unborn children. Pray for them and for the president.