A law firm on Wednesday petitioned President-elect Donald Trump to pardon 21 anti-abortion activists prosecuted by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice when he begins his second term Monday.

"These peaceful pro-life Americans mistreated by Biden include grandparents, pastors, a Holocaust survivor, and a Catholic priest — all are selfless, sincere patriots," stated the letter, signed by leaders of the Thomas More Society, a conservative legal group that is representing the defendants. "We respectfully urge that all 21 of them detailed here are richly deserving of full and unconditional pardons."

Trump pledged that on his first day in office he will pardon most of the people Biden’s DOJ prosecuted after the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.

During a Faith and Freedom Coalition event in June, he also addressed pardons for anti-abortion activists, raising the case of Paulette Harlow, a 75-year-old Catholic convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and sentenced in May to two years in prison. Harlow is among those being represented by the Thomas More Society. 

"Paulette is one of many peaceful pro-lifers who Joe Biden has rounded up, sometimes with SWAT teams, and thrown them in jail," Trump said in June. "Many people are in jail over this. This is just crazy. We’re going to get that taken care of immediately — [on the] first day."

He added his administration will "rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who’s unjustly victimized by the Biden regime, including Paulette, so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong."

Soon after the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion in June 2022, the Biden administration’s DOJ began to use the FACE Act to target anti-abortion activists. The act, passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, prohibits people  from interfering with access to "reproductive health services," including abortion facilities and pregnancy centers.

In January of last year, six anti-abortion activists, all represented by the Thomas More Society, were convicted by a federal jury in Tennessee of violating the FACE Act. In April, four others were convicted related to the case. In August, seven people were convicted by a federal jury in Detroit of FACE Act violations, including five who were involved in the Tennessee case.

"We are hopeful that the second Trump administration will spell a new day for pro-life advocates who have faced FBI raids, federal prosecutions, and severe punishment for peacefully and courageously witnessing for life," said Peter Breen, executive vice president and head of litigation for the Thomas More Society, in a news release. "By acting on the requested presidential pardons, President Trump has a golden opportunity to not only stop the lawfare against peaceful pro-lifers, but to also undo some of the unprecedented damage of the Biden administration."

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, introduced legislation to repeal the FACE Act in the last Congress, but it did not make it out of committee. In December, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, which Roy chairs, held a hearing on the implications of the FACE Act, examining the DOJ’s unequal application of the law during the Biden administration.

Newsmax reached out to Trump’s team for comment.

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