President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned 23 pro-life activists who were convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE Act.

The activists were convicted for blocking access to abortion clinics, or temporarily shutting them down.

“They should not have been prosecuted," Trump said before he signed the pardons, according to Politico. 
"Many of them are elderly people. This is a great honor to sign this.”

Multiple pro-life groups, including the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and the Thomas More Society, have lobbied for the activists to be pardoned.

“Today, freedom rings in our great nation," Thomas More Senior Counsel Steve Crampton said in an emailed statement. "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."

These pardons come just one day before the Washington, D.C. annual March for Life.

The National Religious Broadcasters CEO Troy A. Miller praised Trump in a statement for keeping his promise to pardon the activists.

"President Trump has kept his promise," Miller said in a statement. "We applaud his pardon of 23 Americans unjustly thrown behind bars for peacefully protesting outside abortion clinics, and thank him for his swift action on this critical matter."