Pro-life activist sentenced to 41 months, claims Christian faith is behind her prosecution

Pro-life activist Bevelyn Beatty Williams faces more than three years in prison after preaching the Gospel and protesting outside of an abortion clinic in Manhattan. Under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a 41-month sentence for the 33-year-old stay-at-home mother.

Biden’s DOJ has accused Williams of physically blocking members of the office from entering the clinic and threatening the chief administrative officer. However, Williams argues that she is being targeted solely because of her faith and pro-life convictions.

“I was persecuted as a Christian standing for my beliefs when it comes to life,” she stated. “This is devastating news.”

She claimed that the judge overseeing the case “made it very clear” she wanted to make an example of the young, pro-life mother.

“[The judge] told me before sentencing me that I was young and that I would not be defined by my sentence, before making a conscious decision to take me away from my two-year-old daughter for three years.”

This would not be the first time the DOJ has brought the weight of its prosecutorial power to bear against everyday pro-life citizens.

Last month, the department sentenced 75-year-old Paula Paulette Harlow to two years in jail for participating in a “conspiracy” to block abortion clinics in Washington, D.C. Earlier this year, the Biden administration charged six pro-lifers from Tennessee for violating FACE at a peaceful protest outside an abortion clinic in 2021. Each defendant currently faces over a decade in prison. In 2022, an armed FBI SWAT team, with rifles in the firing position, forced its way into a family’s home to arrest a nonviolent pro-life dad.

There’s no question about it: the federal government is out of control, and the so-called Department of Justice serves as its war department against the American people. It is unacceptable that pro-life Americans should have to fear standing up for a cause as important as human life — but that is precisely the point: the Biden administration wants to intimidate us into silence. 

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