Both president and vice-president indicate US justice department will no longer prosecute anti-abortion activists. In addresses to the March for Life, the nation’s largest anti-abortion rally, Donald Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance, both indicated on Friday that the US justice department would no longer prosecute anti-abortion activists.
“No longer will our government throw pro-life protesters and activists – elderly, grandparents, or anybody else – in prison,” Vance told the thousands-strong crowd that gathered on the National Mall, in the shadow of the Washington Monument. “It stopped on Monday, and we’re not gonna let it come back to this country.”.
Vance trumpeted the president’s decision to, on Thursday, pardon several anti-abortion activists who had been convicted of violating the federal Free Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or the Face Act, by blockading an abortion clinic. That law penalizes people who threaten, obstruct or injure someone who is trying to access a reproductive health clinic – or who vandalize a clinic. Anti-abortion activists have, for years, attempted to strike it down or convince the federal government to stop enforcing it.
“I’m releasing the Christians and pro-life activists who were persecuted by the Biden regime for praying and living out their faith,” Trump said in his own address, which the president pre-recorded and broadcast to the crowd on two giant screens. He added: “Never again will religious persecution be allowed to happen in America.”.
