Posted on 07/29/2024 9:19:03 AM PDT by Morgana
Joe Biden has put another pro-life American in prison for protesting abortion – this time putting a young mother in federal prison for more than three years for preaching outside an abortion center.
Bevelyn Beatty Williams, a 33-year-old mom of a 2-year-old daughter, received a sentence this week of three years and give months in prison.
Williams was charged with violating the FACE Act, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Williams faces an additional charge of violating the FACE Act through force, which carries up to 10 years.
For the nearly three decades since FACE was enacted in 1994, it has rarely been used to prosecute life advocates. Yet in 2022 alone, under the Biden/Garland DOJ, there have been at least 22 peaceful pro-life activists indicted under the act — with the first case involving pro-life advocate Mark Houck, whose family was raided after an altercation at a Philadelphia abortion business last year where he accidentally pushed down a man who was verbally accosting his 12-year-old son.
But Williams says the Biden administration unfairly targeted her while ignoring hundreds of pro-abortion crimes.
“I was persecuted as a Christian standing for my beliefs when it comes to life,” read a statement from Williams on her fundraising page. “This is devastating news. Not only is this bond extensive for the accused crime, but she made it very clear in the courtroom that she was going to make an example out of me.”
Today, on July 24th, at the Southern District Court, Judge Rochan sentenced me to 41 months in prison for violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. I was persecuted as a Christian standing for my beliefs when it comes to life. This is devastating news. Not only is this bond extensive for the accused crime, but she made it very clear in the courtroom that she was going to an make example out of me. The concern of being a young mother, and a stay-at-home mother, was completely disregarded.
She told me before sentencing me that | was young and that I would not be defined by y sentence, before making a conscious decision to take me away from my two-year-old daughter for three years. I have 60 days to appeal my case and fight for my freedom and I need as much help as I can get!
Bevelyn was the one that took the paint brush to a black lives matter street painting (I think it was BLM) and covered it up. That’s when I first heard of her. She’s fearless. I love her....
That’s what I was talking about in my post. She’s a hero, imho.
This should be a bigger story. Three years for preaching in public is a calculated attack on Christians.
We had the trifecta in 2017 to 2018 and on this it was crickets.
Wow!
Was there a trial? Did she have a defense attorney? If not, this is Stalin’s gulag in the US.
Biden didn’t put her in prison. His policy did.
Like Hitler would have said at his trial, had he been captured, “I neffer killed anyvun; I vas only giffing ORDERS!
Since SCOTUS has ruled that abortion is a matter for the states to deal with, isn’t the FACE Act null and void? Could an appeal be made to this effect?
One less dangerous criminal off the streets so we’re safer./S
peacefully protesting unlike 2020 where murder rape and mayhem were forgiven
I remember her. She protested against the protesters in 2020.
That photo is from this protest:
https://x.com/CPGeekee/status/1284613226555219974
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