41 months in jail for trying to save the lives of unborn bab. That's th shocking fate of pro-life heroine Bevelyn Williams, who has just been sentenced to nearly three-and-a-halt years in priosn for blocking the entrance to a Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Manhattan.
The sentencing is punishment for charges brought against Bevelyn Beatty Williams in December 2022: Conspiracy to violate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, as well as violating the FACE Act through “force, threats of force, and physical obstruction, resulting in bodily harm.”
The federal charges stem from the fact that Williams, along with her friend and fellow pro-life activist Edmee Chavannes, sought to stop women from aborting their babies in multiple states, including Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, and Brooklyn, New York. The charges alleging “bodily harm” by Williams pertain to an incident at Planned Parenthood Manhattan Health Center, a euphemistic name that obscures the fact that innocent unborn babies are killed through abortion there.
Video footage shared with LifeSiteNews shows that, at the time, Williams placed herself in front of the entrance to the abortion mill. Eventually, a Planned Parenthood staff member yanked the door open from the outside, beside Williams, to let a woman through. Williams refused to move aside, letting her body weight press against the door as the staff member tried to keep it open to let the woman through. The staff member says that Williams was “crushing” her hand, but Williams stresses that this was an accidental injury, which she said is not included in FACE.
According to Williams, the staff member, who is vice president of marketing for the greater New York area for Planned Parenthood, violated a no-engagement policy by recording Williams and talking to her as she stood outside the abortion mill entrance.
The pro-life advocate was initially sued by Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, with allegations of FACE violations, but was able to “settle without admission of guilt.” After these state charges, similar federal charges were brought against her and Chavannes by Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.