President Trump has pardoned the pro-lifers imprisoned by Joe Biden’s weaponised Department of (In)Justice. The 21 victims of pro-abortionist bigotry have been termed "hostages" by many supporters, and they have a point, because they were seized and imprisoned for political reasons and held in appalling conditions as a way of intimidating others.

On Thursday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump officially pardoned the 23 pro-lifers imprisoned by the Biden DOJ for their attempts to save unborn babies.

Prior to signing the pardons, Trump commented that none of the 23 pro-lifers should have been “prosecuted,” adding that signing the pardons is a “great honor.”

The now-pardoned pro-lifers are: Joan Bell, Coleman Boyd, Joel Curry, Jonathan Darnel, Eva Edl, Chester Gallagher, Rosemary “Herb” Geraghty, William Goodman, Dennis Green, Lauren Handy, Paulette Harlow, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, Jean Marshall, Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Justin Phillips, Paul Place, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, and Calvin, Eva, and James Zastrow.

After the pardons were signed, LifeSiteNews spoke with imprisoned pro-lifer Joan Andrews’ husband, Chris Bell, who said that he believes his wife is still in federal custody at a prison facility near Philadelphia. He was uncertain when she would be released.

Chris said that during his last phone conversation with Joan earlier in the day that she was pleading for the pro-life movement to maintain unity.

“We shouldn’t complain about each other and our tactics,” said Chris, quoting his wife. “We need to be working together to end the holocaust.”

A brave Dutch MP, who was barred from speaking about abortion during a committee meeting on medical ethics held in the Dutch House of Representatives released a viral video exposing the barbarism of abortion in shocking detail. It is easily one of the most honest and powerful denunciations of abortion delivered by a European politician in recent years. 

A leftist bigot abortionists has smeared pro-lifers as fascists. Abortion activist Gemma Clark has been slammed after writing an article linking pro-life views to fascism.

In an article for The Herald urging the Governments in Holyrood and Westminster to decriminalise abortion, she ranted that “Scotland has resisted fascism before — and we can do it again.”

Two days later the newspaper published a letter from reader Martin Conroy in response titled ‘Recognising a baby’s right to life is not fascism’.

Conroy wrote in his response: “I notice that, in her zealous pursuit of abortion decriminalisation, Gemma Clark completely fails to acknowledge the humanity of the unborn child, instead choosing to smear those of us who recognise the fundamental right to life of all human beings as fascists.”

He continued: “An overhaul of the abortion law is long overdue. A reduction in the abortion time limit and an end to the pills-by-post scheme would be a good start”.

“Scotland doesn’t need more abortion – we need a proper national debate about how to humanely support women with unexpected pregnancies.”

In her piece, Clark revealed that the SNP Government had responded that it “would work to ensure abortion was treated primarily as a ‘healthcare matter’”.

However, pro-lifers disagree that viewing the matter through such a lens is appropriate, and last year’s annual UK March for Life in September gathered thousands in London centred around the theme “Abortion isn’t healthcare”. Indeed it isn't - it's MURDER!

The Starmer government’s proposed ‘conversion practices’ law risks criminalising the ordinary work of churches, the Chairman of the Greater Love Declaration has said.

The Government plans to push through “a full trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices, while protecting the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity”.

A group of doctors, psychiatrists, politicians and other professionals warned the Prime Minister that the proposals could also create a “slippery slope towards criminalising parents”.

In a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, the 140 signatories highlighted that under similar legislation in the Australian state of Victoria, parents may be committing ‘conversion therapy’ if they object to their child taking puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

They stated: “In truth, the real ‘conversion’ taking place is that of children who are being led to believe, in schools and elsewhere, that it is possible to be born in the wrong body. We believe that your focus should be squarely on tackling that.”

The plan is also an enormous threat to Bible-true Christians offer advices, courses and support for sexually-confused individuals who want to 'copnvert' away from LGBTQ perversion and become 'straight'.

An abortion loophole that allows grooming gangs to hide their sexual abuse has come under fire.

Several MPs have written to Wes Streeting explaining that, in cases in which grooming gang victims aged 15 or younger have become pregnant, these crimes can more easily be hidden because there is no requirement for abortion providers to notify a parent or guardian before performing an abortion on a child.

As the law stands, if a girl aged 15 or younger has an abortion, there is no requirement for the medical professionals involved with the abortion to notify either the girl’s parents or a guardian. Parents have no legal right to be informed or consulted before their child has an abortion.

In the letter to the Health Secretary, Carla Lockhart MP explained that some of the victims of grooming gangs, aged 15 or younger, had been pressured into abortions with “little to no emotional support from those who care about them most”.

She said: “Without doubt, the legal status quo also made it far easier for the vile individuals behind these crimes to conceal the evil they have inflicted on these vulnerable girls”.

“If there were a legal requirement for parental notification, then it is far more likely questions would have been asked potentially leading to the discovery of these heinous crimes at an earlier stage”.

In one case in Rochdale, a 13-year-old had an abortion in a hospital in an attempt to cover up the abuse. In another case in Oxford, a 12-year-old girl was repeatedly raped and made to have a back-room abortion after falling pregnant.

There was also strong public backlash after a plotline on Coronation Street revealed that a 14-year-old character was able to get a secret abortion without her parent’s knowledge. 

Members of the public were shocked to find out that the plotline reflected the current law where there is no requirement for abortion providers to notify a parent or guardian ahead of performing an abortion.

Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP for Gainsborough, has urged that the law should be “revisited urgently to prevent further catastrophes”.

Pro-lifers in the USA are tryhing to extend protection for babies born alive after abortions to the whole country. At present, such victims are only given legal protection in eighteen states, with abortionists free to leqave them to die everywhere else.

Republican Sen. James Lankford (OH) reintroduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (BAASPA) in the U.S. Senate last Thursday, in hopes of securing a vote to enforce infanticide prohibition early in the upcoming Trump presidency.

BAASPA would mandate that abortion-surviving newborns be shown the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” as would be given following an intended birth, and then be “immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.” Violating physicians would face up to five years in prison, and those who go beyond willful negligence and commit an “overt act” to kill the newborn would be punished under the existing federal murder statute.

Congress technically banned infanticide nationwide unanimously two decades ago with the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA). But that bill lacked penalties or enforcement mechanisms, which BAASPA is meant to correct.

“No child should be denied medical care simply because they are ‘unwanted,’” Lankford said. “Today, if an abortion procedure fails and a child is born alive, doctors can just ignore the crying baby on the table and watch them slowly die of neglect. That’s not an abortion, that’s infanticide.”

Despite letting BAIPA become law unchallenged in 2002, Democrats have since grown far more extreme on abortion, and have consistently voted against BAASPA over the past decade. Republicans now control both chambers of Congress, but would need to convince a handful of Senate Democrats to cross the aisle to clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold.

Another question mark is returning President Donald Trump, who in this past election cycle dramatically retreated from the pro-life record of his first term, and now says he opposes federal abortion restrictions and wants the practice’s legality decided on a state-by-state basis. Both Trump and his incoming Vice President J.D. Vance have also criticised Democrats for their absolutism on the issue, however, including their defense of infanticide, which pro-lifers hope means Trump would at least be open to signing infanticide legislation.

Democrats and the abortion lobby justify their opposition to BAASPA by claiming that existing law is sufficient to make infanticide virtually nonexistent. In reality, however, “[a]lthough the United States fails to record reliable data on abortion survivors, we have estimated, through Canadian government extrapolations, that 1,734 infants are born alive after a failed abortion procedure every year in the United States,” says the Abortion Survivors Network. “In other words, about 2 out of every 1,000 abortions result in a live birth. After 49.5 years of Roe v Wade, 85,817 babies lived through an abortion procedure.”

In September 2024, the Family Research Council (FRC) wrote, “State-level abortion reporting statistics from nine states show that at least 277 infants have survived abortion since 2006.” Only eight states require reporting such data, and there are no federal reporting requirements on the subject, guaranteeing the real number is higher. Several former abortion industry insiders and policy scholars have told Congress or admitted under oath that infanticide after failed abortions happens beyond the notice of official numbers.

As of September 2024, only 18 states have laws requiring medical care for infants delivered alive after attempted abortions, according to FRC, leaving abortionists free to commit infanticide in a majority of the country.

It is becoming very dangerous to be a Christian. One in seven Christians across the world now face “high levels of persecution and discrimination” for their beliefs.

Thelatest  Open Doors annual World Watch List has revealed that over 380 million Christians are suffering persecution, 15 million more than last year. Almost 4,500 Christians were killed for their faith in 2024 alone. A staggering 69 per cent these martyrs were in Nigeria.

In terms of non-lethal persecution, North Korea remains the most dangerous country to follow Jesus, followed by Somalia and Yemen, both of which also see the regular killing of Christians by Islamist gangs. Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan are both also seeing a rise in anti-Christian hatred and violence, often deadly.

Speaking at the parliamentary launch of the World Watch List, the Government’s UK Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, David Smith, said: “These freedoms, which we take for granted, are ones we should share with our international partners around the world.

“We mustn’t shy away from that. We’ve got to recommit ourselves to tackling persecution in every way that we can.”

Jeff King of International Christian Concern, which releases a separate annual spotlight on Christian persecution, said he is “reminded of the profound hope and resilience displayed by our brothers and sisters in Christ under unimaginable circumstances”.

“While the adversaries of faith seek to extinguish the Church, they only spread its flame.”

In Open Doors’ US version of its report, Manga, a Nigerian Christian, explained how God saved him after he refused to renounce his faith.

He told Boko Haram militants: “I live as a Christian, and I’m ready to die as Christian”, before he “felt the presence of God” and survived their attack.

Manga emphasised: “Your prayers should be for strength to remain firm, and that fire for Jesus, which is burning in our heart, should keep on burning.”

The victory of Western- and Israeli-backed Islamists in the long conflict in Syria has also created a rumbing crisis of persecution of Christians there too.

These problems, however, are not confined to Africa and Asia. In October, religious freedom experts highlighted the “increasing intolerance” towards those who hold religious beliefs on marriage, family, and sexual ethics in Europe and North America.

Organised to coincide with a Berlin meeting of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, the event featured the Religious Freedom Institute, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe and the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE).

Dr José Luis Bazán of COMECE said what has come to be known as ‘polite persecution’ has manifested itself in “compelling policies and legislation, as well as social pressure, that undermine and curtail Christians’ possibility to express and live according to their moral and religious principles in contemporary liberal societies”.

A pro-life legal charity is urging Donald Trump to pardon pro-lifers thrown into prison by Biden's abortion-happy Department of Justice.

On January 14, Thomas More Society attorneys submitted to the incoming Trump administration formal requests for presidential pardons on behalf of 21 pro-life advocates who have been unjustly prosecuted, convicted, and in several cases, imprisoned, by the Biden Department of Justice. In their letter submitted to President Donald J. Trump, Thomas More Society attorneys “urge that these pro-life Americans are deserving of full and unconditional pardons.”

The pardon request package includes 21 individual pardon requests, one for each pro-life advocate, outlining the specific facts of each case, their upstanding personal and moral character, and the reasons why President Trump should grant a presidential pardon. The pardon request package also includes a cover letter outlining the legal rationale for the requested pardons and explains how the Biden DOJ routinely and unconstitutionally weaponised the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and “Conspiracy Against Rights” statute against peaceful pro-life advocates.

The 21 pro-life advocates for whom Thomas More Society has submitted pardon requests are: Joan Bell, Coleman Boyd, Joel Curry, Jonathan Darnel, Eva Edl, Chester Gallagher, William Goodman, Dennis Green, Lauren Handy, Paulette Harlow, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, Jean Marshall (pictured above), Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Justin Phillips, Paul Place, Paul Vaughn, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, Calvin Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, and James Zastrow.

Steve Crampton, Thomas More Society Senior Counsel, stated: 

With these requests for presidential pardons for 21 peaceful pro-life advocates, we urge President Trump to right the grievous wrongs of the Biden administration’s weaponization of the Department of Justice These 21 peaceful pro-lifers, many of whom are currently imprisoned for bravely standing up for unborn life, are upstanding citizens and pillars of their communities. Through full and unconditional pardons for these pro-life advocates, President Trump has the chance to remedy the harm done to them and their families, deliver on his campaign promises, and repair trust in our constitutional order.

On at least three occasions, President Trump has publicly signaled his intent to pardon the pro-life advocates wrongly prosecuted during the Biden administration. In September 2023, on the heels of the FACE Act convictions in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated he would review the “cases of every political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”

In February 2024, in a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump referenced the “pro-life activists… convicted on outrageous charges” in the Nashville FACE Act trial and pledged to review those convictions following his return to office. In June 2024, in a speech for the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Trump reiterated his earlier statements and specifically referenced 76-year-old Paulette Harlow in his remarks, who is included among the pro-life advocates requesting a full pardon in the communicated pardon request package.

Let's hope and pray that President Trump stands by his word!