A professional-life activist reporting to jail for her engagement in an abortion clinic blockade is encouraging Individuals to “elect leaders who will stand for justice” and “be the beaming light that you were called to be” as she vows to “preach that Gospel” throughout her incarceration.
Bevelyn Beatty Williams, who was sentenced to 41 months in federal jail for standing on the entrance of a New York Metropolis abortion clinic in November 2020, in what the US Division of Justice characterised as a violation of the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, introduced in an X publish Tuesday that she was reporting to jail Wednesday.
Williams is now serving time in jail following an unsuccessful effort to overturn her conviction beneath the legislation, which topics anybody who makes an attempt to intrude with abortions companies to federal expenses.
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“My legal team worked tirelessly to submit a stay of appeal so I could be at home on bail while appealing this case for the sake of my daughter and husband,” she stated. “Unfortunately, the judge, who also sentenced me, denied the appeal.”
After detailing how she was scheduled to report back to FCI Aliceville in Alabama, and inspired individuals to write down to her and donate to her authorized assist funds, Williams stated, “My family and I remain hopeful and are trusting God through this challenging time.”
“The Bible is clear that persecution will happen, but ministry continues, even in prison. Our job as Christians is to be a light, especially in dark places,” Williams added.
“Please don’t forget to vote and do all you can to elect leaders who stand for justice,” she continued in her message to supporters. “Keep praying for me. I love you all and appreciate your support.”
In a video accompanying the X publish, she insisted that Individuals should re-elect former President Donald Trump. “You all cannot let [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] get in,” she stated, characterizing her prosecution as an effort of “Kamala’s administration,” including: “This is what Kamala has been doing the whole time.”
Williams pointed to Harris’ profession as a prosecutor as proof that she “gets a joy” out of prosecuting her political opponents. She additionally cited her conviction as a undertaking of “a feminist movement” and “a Jezebel spirit in a lot of these women in power,” referring to the President Joe Biden-appointed Decide Jennifer Rochon, who sentenced her.
Williams indicated that her efforts to attraction her conviction are getting into a brand new section: “The good news is we don’t have to deal with this judge anymore. I really wanted to think well of this judge.”
Williams instructed followers that, regardless that Rochon was “so harsh” at sentencing and handled her “so badly,” she “prayed for her” and was “still praying for her.” She reiterated her declare that the choose “represents every woman that just shouldn’t be in power” as a result of she used “bias and emotion” in her judicial resolution.
“She was ruthless with me,” Williams asserted. Williams summarized Rochon’s message as, “I think you’re a danger to the streets” and a “danger to society.” She characterised her conviction as a part of a broader effort by progressive politicians to place “people that they don’t like politically in prison.”
Williams vowed that regardless of her unlucky circumstances, she would proceed to “preach that Gospel.” She recalled how “I told Satan if I end up going in that prison, I promise you, I’m taking every soul with me.”
“Jail doesn’t stop Jesus,” she asserted. “Every person in the Bible that ever was jailed for their faith, they came out rulers.”
Williams expressed confidence that she would find yourself “walking out of that prison a ruler” as she known as on her followers and supporters to evangelise the Gospel: “You better be the beaming light that you were called to be while you’ve got the freedom.”
The professional-lifer’s jail sentence begins lower than three months after the U.S. Division of Justice decided that she “threatened and used pressure towards sufferers and workers” at an abortion facility in lower Manhattan and “blocked sufferers and workers” from accessing the entrance.
The DOJ also alleged that, “In one instance, and as captured on video, Williams pressed her body against the door of the abortion facility’s patient entrance and refused to move.”
“As a Health Center staff member (‘Victim-1’) attempted to open the door for the volunteer, Williams purposefully leaned against the door, crushing Victim-1’s hand. Victim-1 yelled, ‘She’s crushing my hand,’ but Williams remained against the door, trapping Victim-1’s hand and injuring it,” the DOJ stated. Williams vehemently denied the allegation from “Victim-1” in the video: “She lied.”
Following her conviction over the summer, Williams launched a GiveSendGo fundraiser to support her “fight for freedom,” vowing to “fight this case all the way to the [United States] Supreme Court if that’s what it takes.” The campaign states that the funds would also be used to help support her family, which includes a young daughter.
As of Wednesday evening, the GiveSendGo fundraiser had raised over $257,000, exceeding an initial $250,000 goal. She increased the goal to $300,000 after her appeal was denied, expressing disappointment that “we will have to go forward with me surrendering to jail and my husband taking care of Eleanor as a single father on the outside.”
“We are adding 50,000 to support Rickey as he takes care of Eleanor on the outside,” she added.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Publish. He could be reached at: [email protected]
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