Pro-life protester sentenced to years in prison says she is ‘still trying to register’ Trump’s pardon

A pro-life protester who was sentenced to implicit 3 years successful situation told Fox News Digital she is inactive processing President Donald Trump’s pardon. 

"To beryllium pardoned by the President of the United States is thing that I'm inactive trying to register," Bevelyn Beatty Williams told Fox News Digital. "I don't deliberation I tin fathom successful my caput however large this is due to the fact that I don't spot myself as… the personage that radical similar to telephone me. I'm conscionable similar regular, aged Bevelyn."

On Friday, Trump pardoned 23 pro-life prisoners who were convicted by President Joe Biden’s medication of violating the FACE Act, a national instrumentality which bans the usage of unit connected those accessing termination clinics and different reproductive healthcare facilities. 

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Bevelyn Beatty Williams with her husband, Rickey. (Photo: Bevelyn Beatty Williams)

Trump told the media Friday that "We released 23 radical that were unjustly enactment successful and having to bash with pro-life. And, they volition beryllium released, and they'll beryllium retired precise shortly. It was disgraceful what happened."

In June 2020, Williams organized a protestation extracurricular a Planned Parenthood successful Manhattan, and allegedly pushed the doorway closed connected the manus of a idiosyncratic opening the doorway for a volunteer, injuring the worker’s hand. 

A press release from the United States Attorney’s bureau of the Southern District of New York reads that, "On June 19, 2020, and June 20, 2020, WILLIAMS threatened and utilized unit against patients and unit members astatine a reproductive wellness halfway located successful Lower Manhattan (the "Health Center") and blocked patients and unit members from accessing the Health Center."

The property merchandise describes 1 juncture wherever she "pressed her assemblage against the doorway of the Health Center’s diligent entranceway and refused to move, preventing a Health Center unpaid from entering the Health Center. As a Health Center unit subordinate ("Victim-1") attempted to unfastened the doorway for the volunteer, WILLIAMS purposefully leaned against the door, crushing Victim-1’s hand."

On July 24, 2024, Williams was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon to 41 months successful prison, who said that Williams "repeatedly intimidated and interfered with individuals seeking and providing captious reproductive wellness services. She did truthful by physically blocking entree to clinics, threatening staff, and by force."

"I was indicted and sentenced to 3 and a fractional years successful situation for ministering successful beforehand of an termination session and practicing my First Amendment right," Williams told Fox News Digital. "And they accused maine of being large and threatening and obstructing and violent, each things that were not true. And they sent it to maine successful national situation for 3 and a fractional years."

Williams, 33, president and co-founder of At the Well Ministries, said her views connected termination changed erstwhile former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a measure into instrumentality successful 2019 that legalized abortion up to birth successful astir cases.

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 Bevelyn Beatty Williams with her husband, Rickey, and daughter. (Photo:  Bevelyn Beatty Williams)

"I've had 3 abortions successful my past, and truthful I did not commencement disconnected pro-life," Williams said. "I deliberation what ignited my combat for beingness was erstwhile Gov. Cuomo legalized termination up to 9 months… Once I became a Christian, I realized that termination was wrong, and I ever knew it was wrong. I ne'er successful my caput thought, okay, termination is healthcare… But astatine the aforesaid time, erstwhile Gov. Cuomo legalized termination up 'til 9 months, it deed maine that this is truly execution and these poor, guiltless babies are being tortured for convenience."

She said that her sentencing was particularly hard connected her husband. 

"My hubby was devastated," Williams said. "My hubby cried and cried that nighttime aft the sentencing. And it was conscionable each time was similar a timepiece counting down until the time I had to crook myself in. My daughter, who's two, was not alert of what was going on. But she did consciousness my absence. And my husband, helium says present helium tin archer the quality successful her joyousness and happiness, seeing that mommy's home." 

 Bevelyn Beatty Williams with her husband, Rickey, and daughter, Eleanor. (Photo: Bevelyn Beatty Williams)

She said that she does not cognize what is next, but wants to foster connection and dialogue. 

"For me, this is not the clip to settle. I consciousness similar the combat is inactive connected now," Williams said. 

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"Am I going to proceed to protest," she added. "I consciousness like… my demeanor was met for the due season. And I recognize erstwhile to shift. You know, erstwhile I was protesting and preaching against definite things, determination was Covid going on, rights were being taken away. You had BLM militias and Antifa moving amok successful the streets and destroying cities. You know, determination was a crushed for maine to rise my dependable the mode that I did astatine that time. I consciousness similar successful this season, radical are a batch much reasonable. And I deliberation this is simply a clip to commencement having conversations that whitethorn person been pugnacious arsenic they person successful the past."