At the Well Ministries co-founder Bevelyn Beatty Williams, who was found guilty in a New York courtroom in February, has now been sentenced to 41 months in prison.
"[She] repeatedly intimidated and interfered with individuals seeking and providing critical reproductive health services," argued U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, no relation to Bevelyn Beatty Williams. "She did so by physically blocking access to clinics, threatening staff, and by force."
The U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York went on to say that his office and law enforcement partners are committed to ensuring that patients exercising their legal right to obtain reproductive health services, and healthcare facilities and their staff providing those services, can do so without unlawful interference or fear of threats or violence.
Bevelyn Beatty Williams, however, asserts she did not do what he claims.
"The reality is the FACE Act is supposed to be to protect anyone from obstructing or blocking any entrance at any form and time," she notes. "In this particular two days of a rally, the Planned Parenthood had requested for pro-abortion protestors to come to our rally, and they actually are caught on video blocking the door. They were not held accountable for blocking the door because they're for abortion."
Even though there are pictures proving that multiple pro-abortion protestors were standing behind her and blocking the door, she was the one charged.
The pro-lifer is appealing and with a new lawyer, as opposed to the court-appointed counsel whom Williams says "chose not to fight" by displaying what she calls "clear evidence" that would have proven her innocence.
No matter how much the government wants to demonize the Christian view on life, Williams says the reality is America isa country where everyone has the right to liberty and life.
"I'm going to forever stand on life, and I'm not going to allow the criminalization of the DOJ to hinder me from standing on my beliefs as a Christian," she declares.
