Trump pardons anti-abortion defendants who blocked clinic entrances

Published January 23, 2025 3:58pm ET



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.”

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