On Thursday President Trump pardoned nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life activists who were convicted under a federal law of illegally trying to block abortion clinic entrances or otherwise keep women from undergoing the procedure.

The pardons, Trump said in the Oval Office, will go to 23 “peaceful protestors” who were prosecuted under the Biden administration.

“Twenty-three people were prosecuted who should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this,” President Trump said.

The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, enacted in 1994 by former President Bill Clinton, prohibits use of physical force, threat of physical force, or physical obstruction to injure, intimidate or otherwise interfere with “any class of persons [in] obtaining or providing reproductive health services.”

President Trump issued the pardons to the pro-life activists one day before the annual March for Life in Washington, just as he promised on the campaign trail. “Many people are in jail over this,” Trump said in June during a speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition. “We’re going to get that taken care of immediately — [on the] first day,” he said, as highlighted by the New York Post portal.

In the end, the police tried to fine the pastor on the spot, but he refused to sign the fine, so he was arrested and taken in.