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CV NEWS FEED // Pardoned pro-life activist and mother Bevelyn Williams recently spoke to Live Action’s Lila Rose in her first interview after her release from prison. Williams shared her background, trial, and prison experience with Rose in a conversation posted Feb. 3 on Live Action’s YouTube channel.
After the Biden administration’s Department of Justice convicted Williams for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, she was sentenced to three years in federal prison. She spent three months there until President Donald Trump pardoned her Jan. 23.
Williams shared that she grew up in a broken home, suffered abuse and was forced by her father to undergo her first abortion when she was 15 years old. The experience sent her into a deep depression, and she ended up aborting two more children.
“It didn’t make my situation better,” Williams said. “It made it worse. And it made it numb. And I had lost something.”
She stated that from a young age, she had always loved babies and children, but after her first abortion, she lost that love.
In 2013, Williams converted to Christianity after a profound experience in jail while waiting for bail. Later that year, she met her friend and mentor Edmee Chavannes, and the two began At the Well Ministries to help bring others to God.
The ministry began to focus on pro-life work in 2019 after Gov. Mario Cuomo legalized abortion up until birth in New York, where Williams was living at the time.
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During the interview, Williams also shared about her trial and indictment over a Jesus Matters rally that her ministry held in 2020. New York Attorney General Leticia James sued Williams in 2021 for the rally, held on public property outside of an abortion clinic with a full police presence. Williams settled the claim as she was moving out of New York to Tennessee.
However, in 2022, Williams was federally sued and indicted for the same rally. She was accused of harming an abortion clinic worker by crushing her hand in a door, and the judge, Hon. Jennifer Rochan, would not allow a recording of a police officer who stated that Williams never blocked the door to be heard during the trial.
Rochan also would not allow the First Amendment to be explained to the jury.
The woman who stated Williams crushed her hand did not go to urgent care until five days after the alleged incident. She was advised to take Tylenol.
Regardless, Williams was found guilty, and her bail plea was denied. She said that the judge told her during the trial, “You have so many followers, so many supporters, so your two year old will be fine. She don’t need you. She’ll be good.”
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Williams turned herself into prison and was there for three months before Trump pardoned her Jan. 23.
Williams described the moment she saw the pardon on television while in prison. She ran through the prison thanking Jesus, and called her husband to come pick her up.
When Rose asked about how the Biden administration’s Department of Justice weaponized the courts against Willliams, she responded, “What they did to me was not really about politics for me. It was about hurting God. And what I represented was something that was godly, something that was Christ. And they persecuted me the same way that they persecuted Christ.”
Williams is now home with her husband, Ricky, and daughter, Evelyn. She and her husband encourage pro-lifers and Trump to continue protecting the unborn.
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