Donald Trump forgives anti -abortion activists who blocked clinics and intimidated doctors and patients

President Donald Trump forgave anti -abortion activists condemned for blocking entries to abortions, in a new executive order. It is “a great honor to sign this”, celebrated.

“They should not have been prosecuted,” he said while signing pardons for “Pacific protesters provided”.

The people were involved in The invasion and blockade of a clinic of Washington in October 2020.

Lauren cell phone It was sentenced to almost five years in prison for leading the blockade when ordering the blockers that They joined with locks and chains To block the doors of the clinic.

A nurse twisted her ankle when a person pushed her upon entering the clinic, and a woman It was approached by another blocker while I had labor painsprosecutors said. Police He found five fetuses in the house of Handy after she was accused.

Trump Starting with Handy already its nine coacked: Jonathan Darnel de Virginia; Jay Smith, John Hinshaw and William Goodman, all from New York; Joan Bell in New Jersey; Paulette Harlow and Jean Marshall, both from Massachusetts; Heather Idoni of Michigan; and Herb Geraghty of Pennsylvania.

In the first week of Trump’s presidency, abortion defenders have intensified the calls for Trump to indulge the protesters accused of violating the law of freedom of access to entries to clinics, which is designed to protect the abortions of obstructions and threats.

The 1994 Law was approved at a time when protests and blockages increased in clinics, as well as violence against abortion services suppliers, such as the murder of Dr. David Gunn in 1993.

Gunn’s murder He marked the beginning of a wave of mortal violence against abortion. The shooting occurred after attacks with bombs in clinics and regular protests against abortion in Pensacola.

Trump specifically mentioned Harlow in a June speech in which he criticized the Department of Justice of former President Joe Biden for presenting charges against protesters involved in blockages.

“Many people are in jail for this,” he said in June, he added: “We are going to solve it immediately.”

Defenders of abortion criticized Trum’s pardonsP As proof of his opposition to access to abortion, despite his vague and contradictory statements on the subject while trying to find a medium term in the electoral campaign between the anti -abortion allies and most of the Americans who support the right to abortion.

The defense of abortion was one of the biggest flags of the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris.

“In the electoral campaign, Donald Trump He tried to act both ways: boasting of his role in the cancellation of Roe v. Wade and at the same time saying that I was not going to take measures on abortion “Said Ryan Stitzlein, vice president of political and government relations of the National Organization for the right to abortion, reproductive freedom for all.

“We never thought that was true and this shows us that we were right,” he said.

The president of SBA Pro-Life America, Marjorie Dannenfelser, thanked Trump for “immediately fulfilling her promise” to pardon the protesters, arguing that His prosecutions were political.

The legal group Thomas More Society argued in a letter addressed to Trump in January that the defendants of the FACE law they represent had been “unjustly imprisoned.” The group had assured the defendants that Trump would review his cases and forgive them When he assumed the position, according to the letter.

“Today, Freedom resonates in our great nation,” Steve Crampton, main lawyer of the Thomas More society on Thursday, added: “What happened to them can never be erased, but today’s pardons are a great step towards restoration of justice “.

Republican senator Josh Hawley, one of Trump’s most loyal supporters, described the processing of anti -abortion protesters as “A groting assault on the principles of this country” And he urged Trump to forgive them while reading the stories of said anti -abortion protesters in the Senate, Thursday.

He highlighted Eva Edl, who was involved in blocking a clinic in Tennessee in 2021 and whose history has drawn the attention of the largest national anti -abortion groups.

Hawley said “had a great conversation” on Thursday morning with Trump about protesters.

The news of the pardons It arrives before the annual protest Against abortion Life march Friday in Washington, where the president is expected to go to the crowd in a video.