By Bud Shaver,
Washington D.C.- On Thursday, January 23, 2025 President Donald J. Trump issued a pardon for 23 pro-life prisoners, imprisoned during the former President, Joe Biden’s, administration. Abortion Free New Mexico was one of several pro-life organizations that were publicly urging President Donald J. Trump to issue a pardon.
President Trump remarked during the signing of the pardon,
“They should never have been prosecuted, many of them are elderly people.”
President Trump concluded the signing of the pardon ceremony by stating,
“This is a great honor to sign this.”
Here is video footage of some of the peaceful pro-life Christians arrested in Tennessee on March 5, 2021 those arrested included, Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Coleman Boyd, Paul Vaughn and Dennis Green.
UPDATED: The full list of those pardoned include:
- Lauren Handy (57 months in prison)
- John Hinshaw (21 months)
- Jonathan Darnell (34 months)
- Herb Geraghty (27 months)
- Jean Marshall (24 months)
- Joan Andrews Bell (27 months)
- Paulette Harlow (24 months)
- Bevelyn Williams (41 months)
- Heather Idoni (24 months)
- Calvin Zastro (6 months)
- Eva Zastrow
- James Zastrow
- Paul Place
- Paul Vaughn
- Justin Phillips
- Fr. Fidelis Moscinski
- William Goodman
- Dennis Green
- Eva Edl
- Chester Gallagher
- Coleman Boyd
- Joel Curry
- Caroline Davis
- Jay Smith
Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,
“Abortion Free New Mexico would like to thank President Donald J. Trump for acting so swiftly and decisively in pardoning the 23 peaceful pro-life prisoners. These courageous individuals’ sacrifice should inspire us all to ask, ‘What more can I do to peacefully work to end the injustice of abortion,‘ especially in radical pro-abortion states like New Mexico. It is a constitutional crisis that pre-born babies in the womb have legal protection in some states, but lose their humanity and can be legally killed by abortion in others. It is now time for Congress to overturn the FACE act that many of these prisoners were charged with.
