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Pro-life activist prosecuted by Biden DOJ reacts to Trump pardon: ‘I want to give him a hug’

by January 24, 2025
January 24, 2025

When Joan Bell, 76, was given the news she was one of the pro-life activists pardoned by President Donald Trump Thursday afternoon, she was in disbelief.

‘I didn’t know if that meant we would get out in a few weeks or a few months, or what. I didn’t really know, but I knew we got pardoned,’ Bell, a grandmother of eight, told Fox News Digital Friday. ‘Well, then I ran upstairs because I had a rosary every evening.’

After finishing her prayers and Bible study with other inmates, Bell, a lifelong pro-life advocate, was told by several other inmates that her husband, Christopher Bell, was on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show saying she was indeed one of the 23 others pardoned.

‘That was overwhelmingly beautiful,’ Bell recalled. ‘Everyone was clapping.’ She was then told by a guard to pack up her things for her release later that evening. 

‘We are so grateful to Trump. And to just feel the fresh air, God’s beautiful air, just wonderful,’ Bell said. ‘Just being out and being with my husband, my son, just glorious. There are no words to describe that kind of freedom.’ 

She added that she and her husband will take a ‘second honeymoon’ soon. 

Bell, who lives in New Jersey, was sentenced to more than two years in prison in November 2023 for participating in a ‘blockade,’ conspiring with other activists at a Washington D.C. abortion clinic in October 2020, according to President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ). 

Prosecutors from the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia argued the pro-life activists violated the 1994 FACE Act, a federal law that prohibits physical force, threats of force or intentionally damaging property to prevent someone from obtaining or providing abortion services.

The activists were sentenced by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a Clinton appointee, and immediately detained.

While signing the pardons Thursday, just a day before Friday’s annual March for Life rally, Trump said, ‘They should not have been prosecuted.’ 

‘Many, many of them are elderly people,’ Trump said in the Oval Office. ‘They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this. They’ll be very happy.’

Bell, along with Paula Paulette Harlow, Jean Marshall and John Hinshaw, were all around 70 years old when they were imprisoned.

‘That he personally knew our case is so touching,’ Bell said of Trump. ‘I want to give him a hug.’

Attorneys from the Thomas More Society formally requested pardons from the Trump administration earlier this month for the 21 pro-life advocates the law firm was representing. 

‘The heroic peaceful pro-lifers unjustly imprisoned by Biden’s Justice Department will now be freed and able to return home to their families, eat a family meal and enjoy the freedom that should have never been taken from them in the first place,’ Steve Crampton, senior counsel of the Thomas More Society, said in a statement. 

‘These heroic peaceful pro-lifers were treated shamefully by Biden’s DOJ, with many of them branded felons and losing many rights that we take for granted as American citizens.’

In a previous interview with Fox News Digital, Crampton said it was hard to find a ‘fair jury’ and that most of the jurors were either Planned Parenthood donors or pro-choice advocates in the cases. He called Washington, D.C., the ‘most pro-abortion city in America.’ 

‘She can say her pro-death words, but we weren’t allowed to say pro-life words,’ Bell said of the judge in the trial. Nonetheless, she said it was more ‘heartbreaking’ to be prosecuted for her religious beliefs.

This week, Trump also took action to pardon over 1,000 Jan. 6 rioters who were imprisoned, along with numerous other executive orders related to immigration and cryptocurrency and orders to declassify the MLK and JFK files.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division for comment. 

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