President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists Thursday. (Getty/Christopher Bell)
"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).
PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS FOUND GUILTY ON CONSPIRACY CHARGES FOR 2020 'RESCUE ACTION' AT DC CLINIC
President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders and pardons for Jan. 6 defendants in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington Jan. 20, 2025. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
"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.
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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.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
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