Abortion moderate Donald Trump expresses his moderation by pardoning anti-abortion activists who illegally blockaded clinics
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Checking in on the Peace Abortion Moderation president:
President Donald Trump on Thursday issued pardons for nearly two dozen people who were convicted for blocking access to and temporarily shutting down abortion clinics, some of whom are currently serving federal sentences.
“They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people,” Trump said. “This is a great honor to sign this.”
Trump described the group as “peaceful protesters.” Yet many of them were charged with barricading the doors of clinics with bicycle locks and other implements, pushing and in some cases injuring clinic workers, and preventing patients from accessing health services.
According to the Thomas More Society, which represented many of the convicted individuals in federal court, Trump’s pardon includes a group of abortion opponents arrested after they forced their way into an abortion clinic in Washington in 2020 and blocked its entrance for several hours. Five of them were convicted in 2023 for “using a physical obstruction to injure, intimidate and interfere with the clinic’s employees and a patient, because they were providing or obtaining reproductive health services,” then-President Joe Biden’s Justice Department said.
Also pardoned is Bevelyn Williams, a Tennessee woman sentenced to 41 months in prison for “interference, including by threats and force, with individuals seeking to obtain and provide lawful reproductive health services.” Williams, according to the DOJ, crushed a clinic staff member’s hand in a door while attempting to block access to a New York City facility in 2020. She also participated in a separate demonstration at a Florida clinic in 2022, which federal authorities said caused delays “in treating at least a dozen patients, three of whom were scheduled for time-sensitive procedures that could have resulted in bleeding, infection, or significant pain without timely treatment.”
Several anti-abortion groups, including Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, the Thomas More Society and Americans United for Life, lobbied Trump to issue the pardons — in open letters and social media posts as well as through private channels. Many of those groups praised Trump after the pardons were announced on Thursday, but stressed that they will keep pressure on him to deliver for them on several other policy fronts.
This will indeed incentivize more violence against abortion clinics, which is the point.
If only Trump had been president for four years so we knew whether or not he was a puppet of the anti-abortion lobby rather than the “moderate [LOL]” he lied about being on the campaign trail. I mean, maybe he would have packed the federal courts with anti-abortion fanatics while obstructing access to mifepristone? Alas, we had no way of knowing, so you can see how the political press had no choice to respond with “brilliant gambit, sir.”