Trump forgives anti-abortion activists before the rally

US President Donald Trump pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists, some of whom are convicted of blocking a boresic health clinic and intimidating staff and patients.

The pardons were part of a series of decrees signed by Trump on Thursday, one of the several during the first week of his presidency.

Trump described convictions as “ridiculous”, but the abortion rights militants said that this decision was proof of his opposition to access to abortion.

The orders came one day before the anti-abortion demonstrators came to Washington DC for the annual march for life, that the president must address Videolink.

In 2020, Trump became the first exercise president to attend the rally in person, although George W Bush and Ronald Reagan also addressed remotely.

Vice-president JD Vance will attend this time.

The rally took place in the American capital each year since 1974, a year after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court of Roe V Wade.

Abortion rights were a key question in recent presidential races and the Court canceled the decision in 2022.

Signing the pardons, Trump said activists: “They shouldn’t have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly … It is a great honor to sign this. They will be very happy.”

The American media report that one of these forgives is Lauren Handy, leader of the Progressive Progressive Progressive Group (PAAU).

The group was found guilty of conspiracy in 2020 to storm a boresic health clinic in Washington and block access to patients and staff intimidate. The members have made their way to the Suri-Clinic, injuring a nurse and spent several hours inside.

Handy was found guilty in August 2023 and sentenced in May 2024.

His supporters praised the pardons, saying that the convictions were political.

Susan B President B Anthony Pro-Life America, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said that the demonstrators had been targeted by the Ministry of Justice of Joe Biden and she thanked Trump to “have immediately kept her promise” to forgive them.

But activists of abortion rights said that the pardons confirmed their conviction that Trump was anti-abortion, despite himself declaring during his presidential campaign that it was to individual states to decide the authorization of the authorization of .

Ryan Stitzlein of the National Abortion Rights Reproductive Organization Freedom Freedom for All said at the AP of the press agency: “Donald Trump on the campaign track tried to have them in the two directions – boast of his role in the Roe reversal against Wade while saying that he was not going to act on action on abortion.

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