Former President Donald Trump said that if elected president, he would work to free pro-life activists who have been prosecuted and jailed by the pro-abortion Biden administration, Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported. report on tuesday.
In a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition on June 22, Trump specifically Mentioned In the case of 75-year-old Paulette Harlow, she was sentenced to 24 months in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and for “conspiracy against rights” during a 2020 protest at a Washington, D.C. abortion clinic notorious for late-term abortions.
“Paulette is one of the many peaceful pro-lifers that Joe Biden has called in SWAT teams to arrest and put in jail,” Trump said. “There are a lot of people in jail for this. … We’re going to deal with this very soon.” [on the] first day.”
Harlow was under house arrest due to poor health prior to being sentenced, unlike his co-defendants who spent months in prison awaiting sentencing. according to Harlow’s attorney, Allen Olenberg, said in a statement that Harlow’s health was rapidly deteriorating and that prison time could have a negative impact on her health, according to Live Action News.
“She cannot continue living without the support, especially of her husband,” Ohlenberg said of Harlow, who is the mother of six children, including four adopted ones, and the grandmother of eight grandchildren.
Trump said that if he is re-elected as president, his administration would “The cases of Paulette and all other political prisoners unjustly harmed by the Biden Administration should be swiftly reviewed so they can be released from detention camps and returned to their families where they belong.”
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— SBA Pro-Life America (@sbaprolife) May 14, 2024
Trump also reportedly accused the Biden administration of persecuting Christians and Catholics, and said he would create a federal task force to investigate anti-Christian bigotry and other unlawful discrimination against people of faith.
“We will protect Christians in our schools, our military, our government, our workplaces, our hospitals and our public squares,” he said.
In 2023, President Trump If re-elected, the task force would review the punishments of “all political prisoners unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration” and potentially pardon or commute their sentences.
Donald Trump slams Joe Biden for sending pro-life Americans to prison https://t.co/9ZHmdn4162 pic.twitter.com/v0DTS2Y1Ij
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) September 18, 2023
“Under the Biden administration, some people are being sentenced to 10, 15, even 20 years in prison in retaliation for their political beliefs, while Antifa and other groups have burned down cities like Portland and Minneapolis,” Trump said in a speech at the Pray, Vote, Support Summit in the nation’s capital in 2023. “They invaded Seattle, and what they did in Seattle was basically take over most of the city. They killed people, they looted people, they robbed people, and then they’re free.”
“Political repression is immoral and very un-American and it is very dangerous for them to play such a game,” he said.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X. Follow.
