By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, Related Press
CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump introduced Thursday he would pardon anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.
Trump known as it “a great honor to sign this.”
“They should not have been prosecuted,” he mentioned as he signed pardons for “peaceful pro-life protesters.”
Among the many individuals pardoned have been these concerned within the October 2020 invasion and blockade of a Washington clinic.
Within the first week of Trump’s presidency, anti-abortion advocates have ramped up requires Trump to pardon protesters charged with violating the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances Act, which is designed to guard abortion clinics from obstruction and threats. The 1994 legislation was handed throughout a time the place clinic protests and blockades have been on the rise, in addition to violence in opposition to abortion suppliers, such because the homicide of Dr. David Gunn in 1993.
Initially Printed: January 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM PST
