President Trump issued pardons on Thursday for nearly two dozen anti-abortion activists who had been convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.

“They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “This is a great honor to sign this.”

Anti-abortion groups and GOP lawmakers have been pressing Trump to pardon the protesters charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal crime to use "threats of force, obstruction or inflict property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.”

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