The Unexpected Pardons That Set These Pro-Life Activists Free

Joan Bell had just finished her second group Rosary of the day when a fellow inmate ran into her Philadelphia prison cell and delivered unexpected news. “’Miss Joan’s husband’s on TV! She’s been pardoned,'” Bell, 76, recounted to The Epoch Times. Bell, who has been dubbed the matriarch of pro-life activism, has been to jail multiple times for “rescues”—the pro-life term for entering an abortion clinic and potentially blocking entrances in hopes of stopping procedures from occuring. This time, the president of the United States granted her a pardon. “I didn’t think it was going to happen,” Bell said, referring to the pardon. She added that she was grateful to Trump for his “great, great kindness.”...