What to Know About Trump’s Pardons of Pro-Life Protesters

 The pardons were handed down the day before a swarm of pro-life advocates swarmed Washington for the 52nd annual March for Life.

 

President Donald Trump signed a pardon for 23 pro-life demonstrators on Jan. 23, three days after taking office, making good on his campaign promise to address what he called the “weaponization” of the Department of Justice against pro-life demonstrators.

The protesters

 were prosecuted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. When presented with the pardon, Trump said it was “a great honor to sign this.”

“They should not have been prosecuted,” he said as he signed pardons.