US President Donald Trump has pardoned 23 peaceful pro-life activists jailed under the previous presidency of Joe Biden.
Mr Trump signed an executive order on the eve of the national March for Life and announced: “They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honour to sign this.”
He said the activists were prosecuted when they were simply exercising their rights under the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects freedoms of speech, the Press, religion and association.
Among them was Fr Fidelis Moscinski, a priest.
Steve Crampton, senior counsel for the Thomas More Society, the law firm representing 21 of the activists, said afterwards: “Today, freedom rings in our great nation.
“The heroic peaceful pro-lifers unjustly imprisoned by Biden’s Justice Department will now be freed and able to return home to their families, eat a family meal, and enjoy the freedom that should have never been taken from them in the first place.”
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