Just a few days into his newly minted presidency, Donald Trump, amid a flurry of executive orders, pardoned twenty-three pro-life prisoners of conscience. With a few strokes of a pen, Trump freed Bevelyn Beatty Williams, a wife and mother from Tennessee; Eva Edl, a communist death camp survivor; Joan Andrews Bell, a grandmother and matriarch of the rescue movement; Lauren Handy, the founder and leader of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising; my friend and Red Rose Rescuer Will Goodman, and eighteen other men and women who were imprisoned for insisting that children not be dismembered in the womb.

The joy I felt at learning of the pardons was surely as nothing compared to the joy of those who had been released from prison, and of their loved ones at home waiting for their return. An interview with Will Goodman shortly after his release provides a glimpse into the great happiness that comes when an injustice is overturned. Many others around the country and the world knew that justice had prevailed—including President Trump himself: “They should not have been prosecuted,” he declared as he signed the pardons.

There was more good news to come. The attorney general of California, Rob Bonta, announced in late January that the state wasn’t pursuing cases against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. In 2015, Daleiden and Merritt published undercover videos they made in which Planned Parenthood officials bargained for higher prices for aborted fetal tissue and explained in gruesome detail the ways in which unborn children are butchered and sold for cash. Former vice president Kamala Harris, who at the time was the California attorney general, and her successor, Xavier Becerra, worked with Planned Parenthood before bringing criminal charges against Daleiden and Merritt. Nearly ten years of politically motivated, corrupt lawfare ensued, targeting two brave people who risked everything to tell the truth about abortion in America. That lawfare is finally over.

The pardoning of nearly two dozen pro-lifers and the halted persecution of Merritt and Daleiden are truly welcome pieces of news. I join pro-life—and pro-justice—Americans in rejoicing that the right thing has finally been done. But something Will Goodman said shortly after he was released from prison put my rejoicing in perspective. “Please pray,” Goodman said, “because the unborn children, they don’t receive a pardon.”

This is all too true. Justice has been done for twenty-five people, but the injustices against which those twenty-five are fighting have not abated. There will be abortions today in America. There will be horrific suffering inflicted on children and their mothers. And all of it will be legal.