This week, the Thomas More Society sent pardon petitions to the incoming Trump administration. The request was sent on behalf of 21 pro-life advocates they say have been “unjustly convicted” by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ). The Thomas More Society, a conservative national public interest law firm, filed the petitions after President-elect Donald Trump promised to review and potentially pardon or commute the sentences of every “political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”
Steve Crampton, Thomas More Society Senior Counsel, says “With these requests for presidential pardons for 21 peaceful pro-life advocates, we urge President Trump to right the grievous wrongs of the Biden administration’s weaponization of the Department of Justice.” He added, “These 21 peaceful pro-lifers, many of whom are currently imprisoned for bravely standing up for unborn life, are upstanding citizens and pillars of their communities. ”
“Through full and unconditional pardons for these pro-life advocates, President Trump has the chance to remedy the harm done to them and their families, deliver on his campaign promises, and repair trust in our constitutional order” he wrote. Thomas More Society Executive Vice President and Head of Litigation Peter Breen added, “We are hopeful that the second Trump administration will spell a new day for pro-life advocates who have faced FBI raids, federal prosecutions, and severe punishment for peacefully and courageously witnessing for life.”
The Biden DOJ has prosecuted these activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The law was passed by then-President Bill Clinton and prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.” While it was written to protect churches, pregnancy centers, and abortion clinics 97 percent of FACE Act cases have been against pro-life advocates.
The Biden DOJ has gone after pro-life protestors with an iron fist. The Biden regime has accounted for more than a quarter of all 211 FACE prosecutions. In some cases, the FBI has conducted early morning raids where they held activists at gunpoint. In 2022 Biden established a “Reproductive Rights Task Force” to “protect access to reproductive health care”
The Attorneys wrote: “We represent peaceful pro-life Americans, some of whom were unjustly imprisoned and others unjustly convicted by the Biden Department of Justice for demonstrating at abortion facilities. ” They added, “They have been heartened during their imprisonment and unjust prosecutions by your repeated messages to them during your campaign, urging them to persevere until you were able to take office, review their cases, and free them.”
The statement went on to say “These peaceful pro-life Americans mistreated by Biden include grandparents, pastors, a Holocaust survivor, and a Catholic priest—all are selfless, sincere patriots. Their respective plights and personal information are provided in attachments to this letter. We respectfully urge that all 21 of them detailed here are richly deserving of full and unconditional pardons.”
“While Biden’s prosecutors almost entirely ignored the firebombing and vandalism of hundreds of pro-life churches and pregnancy centers, they viciously pursued pro-life Americans, obtaining convictions against them under the federal “FACE Act” and the Ku Klux Klan Act’s “Conspiracy Against Rights” felony provisions,” says the letter from the Thomas More Society.
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They concluded by saying, “Peaceable actions like these usually merit, at worst, a minor misdemeanor conviction. And had they been opposing anything but abortion, Joe Biden would have given them medals—instead Biden wanted them branded as ‘convicted felons’ and imprisoned for years in a federal penitentiary,” the letter reads. “We thus respectfully request that you right the wrongs of the Biden DOJ and grant full and unconditional pardons to [these activists].”
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