Trump should immediately take up the cases of the 21 individuals who were wrongfully prosecuted due to their pro-life consciences.
Former President Joe Biden’s administration imprisoned dozens of pro-lifers under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act during his time in office. Among them was 75-year-old Paulette Harlow, a mother of six and grandmother of eight, who in June of last year was sentenced to two years in prison for causing a disturbance inside of a Washington, D.C. abortion clinic run by notorious late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo.
Although FACE Act violations usually have minimal sentences, Biden’s Department of Justice weaponized the act and affixed felony conspiracy charges to violations, lengthening the sentences of multiple pro-lifers, nine of whom were arrested and charged for staging a sit-in at Santangelo’s Washington-Surgi clinic in 2020. Santangelo is the D.C. abortionist who somewhat famously said that he “would not help” babies born alive during an abortion. Two of the pro-lifers, Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac, took a box labeled “Washington Surgi-Clinic” from a medical waste truck so they could bury the babies who were inside. In the box, they found 115 children, five of whom appeared to have been murdered in partial-birth abortions; DOJ officials ordered the D.C. medical examiner to incinerate the babies’ remains before they could be autopsied. Attorney General Merrick Garland never opened an investigation into the case, and instead of criminalizing infanticide, Biden’s DOJ criminalized the pro-lifers who tried to save babies.
Bevelyn Williams is a pro-life mom who was arrested in 2020 for blocking access to an abortion clinic. She’s in an Alabama prison, serving a three-year sentence, and just yesterday, when January 6 prisoners who were in the federal prison with her were pardoned and released, Williams said she was confused as to why pro-lifers hadn’t yet received similar treatment from Trump.
“She is still there waiting and she is honestly confused. I am confused as well as to why she hasn’t been pardoned along with the other 20 Pro-Lifers?” Williams’ husband tweeted, adding that “we haven’t heard much about the 21 Pro-Lifers still locked up in Federal Prison or much about their pardons just yet including my wife.”
Trump should immediately take up the cases of the 21 individuals who were wrongfully prosecuted due to their pro-life consciences: Joan Bell, Coleman Boyd, Joel Curry, Jonathan Darnel, Eva Edl, Chester Gallagher, William Goodman, Dennis Green, Lauren Handy, Paulette Harlow, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, Jean Marshall, Father Fidelis Moscinski, Justin Phillips, Paul Place, Paul Vaughn, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, Calvin Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, and James Zastrow.