<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A pro-life advocate said that President Donald Trump’s pardons of nearly two dozen pro-life protesters was a “powerful” rebuke to the weaponization of government.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thomas More Society Executive Vice President and Head of Litigation Peter Breen testified Tuesday before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight about the Biden administration’s prosecution of peaceful pro-life protesters. Breen urged the lawmakers to take action to repeal the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that makes it a federal crime to block an entrance to an abortion facility.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Biden DOJ engaged in a systematic campaign to abuse the power of the federal government against pro-life advocates, while that same DOJ ignored hundreds of acts of vandalism and violence against pro-life churches, pregnancy help centers, and other advocates,” Breen said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Thomas More Society represented several of the pro-life defendants who were prosecuted under Biden and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-21-pro-life-defendants-targeted-by-biden-doj-ask-trump-to-pardon-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later urged</a> the Trump administration to issue pardons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On his fourth day in office, Trump pardoned 23 of the pro-lifers targeted by Biden, including multiple people who were serving years-long prison sentences.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They should not have been prosecuted,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-should-not-have-been-prosecuted-trump-pardons-23-pro-lifers-targeted-by-biden-doj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> as he signed the order. “Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Breen said that the pardons were a “powerful message.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“On behalf of our clients and the pro-life movement as whole, we are thankful to President Trump for his recent pardons and to the members of this House who supported that effort,” he said. “Those pardons sent a powerful message to the country—and especially to the millions of Americans in the pro-life movement—that the federal government should not be weaponized against Americans because of their sincere beliefs in the sanctity of human life.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During his testimony, Breen discussed the case of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kidnapped-at-gunpoint-pro-life-activist-testifies-about-harrowing-fbi-raid-of-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Vaughn</a>, a pro-life father of 11 pardoned by Trump. In 2022, armed FBI agents raided Vaughn&#8217;s rural Tennessee home while his children were waiting to go to school. Vaughn was present at a pro-life protest in Tennessee in 2021 where he did not block entry into the abortion facility, but spoke with police and other protesters.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Breen urged the lawmakers to repeal the FACE Act, saying that a “Sword of Damocles” hung over pro-life advocates across the country as long as there was a possibility that future administrations could take a similar aggressive prosecutorial approach as the Biden administration. </span></p>

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