President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he granted pardons to nearly two dozen anti-abortion protesters who were charged with Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act violations, marking the latest in a series of clemency actions in Trump’s first week in office.
Trump said from the Oval Office as he signed the clemency document that they “should not have been prosecuted.”
“Many of them are elderly people,” Trump said, adding that “this is a great honor to sign this.”
Trump said he was pardoning 23 defendants. Some of their names were visible on a list he displayed from his desk. A record confirming all of the recipients and details of their clemency was not yet available as of this publishing.
Lauren Handy, 31, was perhaps the most prominent anti-abortion protester to receive clemency, according to Trump’s list. She has been serving out a nearly…
