
After Only Four Days in Office, President Trump PARDONS Pro-Life Activists Imprisoned for Peacefully Praying for Preborn Children;
Ending Abusive, Weaponized “Justice” Will Help Make America Great Again

“With President Trump back in office, pro-life Americans can rest easier,” said Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins. “We commend our 47th President for acting so quickly to end the injustice of peaceful pro-life activists convicted of felonies and imprisoned after praying for the preborn near abortion vendor businesses. The Biden-Harris Administration practiced viewpoint discrimination in their prosecutions, going after Americans not for what they did, but what they thought while doing it. While there are still many things on the pro-life movement’s to-do list for Trump and Vice President Vance to consider, this act of solidarity with the pro-life community gives us hope.”
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (01-23-2025) – After four days in office, President Donald Trump mercifully corrected the injustice of imprisoning peaceful pro-life protestors and pardoned 23 pro-lifers who “violated” the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The Biden-Harris administration disproportionally wielded this Clinton-era law to discriminate against peaceful pro-lifers who protested by praying outside of abortion vendors where preborn lives are ended by intentional abortion. While alleged reduced “access” to abortion vendor operations resulted in felonies, pro-Hamas protestors who blocked “access” college and university campuses as well as threatened Jewish students walked away without any consequences. “The Biden-Harris Administration practiced viewpoint discrimination in their prosecutions, going after people not for what they did, but what they thought while doing it,” said Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins.
LEARN MORE HERE: After Hunter Biden’s Pardon, the Pro-Life Generation Calls on President Trump to PARDON Pro-Life Americans
Hawkins continued: “The corrupt era of Joe Biden and his weaponized Department of Justice (DOJ) has ended, and peaceful, pro-life Americans rest easier knowing that their free speech rights are safer today. However, the work is far from over. Congress should eliminate the FACE Act and debar & defund Planned Parenthood to end the prejudice in the law against pro-life Americans and for abortion.”
According to the Thomas More Society, they represented 21 of the 23 pro-lifers pardoned by Trump after being wrongfully imprisoned by former President Joe Biden’s DOJ:
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, Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Justin Phillips, Paul Place, Paul Vaughn, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, Calvin Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, and James Zastrow.
Additionally, Herb Geraghty and Bevelyn Williams were also pardoned.
SIGNS OF BETTER DAYS AHEAD: Recently, Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi promised Sen. Josh Hawley to protect peacefully pro-lifers, Pregnancy Health Centers (PHC), and churches.
WATCH ON KRISTAN HAWKINS’ TWITTER HERE
Earlier this year, Paul Vaughn, father of 11 and one of six pro-lifers convicted in the alleged FACE Act violations of singing and praying at a Tennessee abortion facility, was sentenced to three years of supervised release, avoiding prison time, later testifying about his experience at a hearing on “Revisiting the Implications of the FACE Act: Part II” led by Chairmen Chip Roy (R-TX) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
Here are a few examples, including one from an SFLA staff member:
- South Carolina man was convicted of the FACE Act for sitting in front of a Planned Parenthood entrance.
- A pro-life father, Mark Houck, was arrested at his home in front of his children in 2022 for praying peacefully outside of a Planned Parenthood facility.
- SFLA staff member was likewise arrested for sidewalk-chalking on a public street in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Washington D.C. in 2021. Since then, the charges against the two students have been dropped, but the free speech case against the District of Columbia continues.
To learn more about Students for Life of America initiatives, CLICK HERE.
Learn more about efforts to get rid of the FACE Act abuses here: Students for Life Action (SFLAction) and other Pro-Life Groups Call for Vote on FACE Act Repeal Act H.R. 5577.
And here: SFLAction Calls for the end of the FACE Act that Represents the “Long-Term Hostility of Democrats in Our Nation’s Capital to Peaceful Pro-Life Citizens”
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The Pro-Life Generation (PLG) is an umbrella organization encompassing the most-innovative engagement opportunities for a Vote Pro-Life First Community. PLG includes Students for Life Action (SFLAction), a 501c4, along with its 501c3 sister organization, Students for Life of America (SFLA), that together make up the nation’s largest, pro-life youth organization, managing a grassroots political and policy operation engaging Americans of all ages but with a special emphasis on the largest segment of voters — the Youth Vote. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, PLG/SFLA/SFLAction serves more than 1,500 groups on middle, high school, college, medical, and law school campuses in all 50 states. Our team has more conversations with this generation targeted by the abortion lobby than any other pro-life operation in the world, each week reaching more than 4 million across social media platforms and averaging 1.3 million video views. In addition to SFLA/SFLAction, PLG leads multiple initiatives to lead and serve the future of the pro-life movement including the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities, Standing With You, and the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement . Over more than 17 years, PLG CEO Kristan Hawkins has grown the operation into a nearly $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.
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