Bevelyn Williams is one of 23 pro-life activists recently pardoned by President Donald Trump after the Biden administration weaponized the Department of Justice (DOJ) to use the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act as a means of attacking the pro-life movement.
Williams had been imprisoned in Alabama, but was set free on January 23, 2025. Her original sentence was for 41 months in a federal prison over an alleged crime for which she was not arrested at the time, which had gone without investigation for two years.
“It was like they placed me in a social trash can, because I didn’t represent what they wanted me to represent, and I wasn’t who they wanted me to be. And I even told the judge, when she sentenced me, I said, you know, if I was half-naked dancing on a stage, you wouldn’t have sentenced me like this. You would have gave me a slap on the wrist,” Williams said in a new interview with Live Action founder and president Lila Rose.
“I know a woman who stole millions of dollars in PPP loans. She got a year. But because of my voice and what I stand for, you treat me exactly as what you see me as, a Negro out of line. I don’t fit the bill of what you want me to be anymore. I’m not the one that’s going to get on stage and twerk so you can get a vote. That’s what we were for y’all,” Williams said. “But the moment we started to step up and stand for righteousness, now, oh, now the real numbers come. Now the real sentence come. Now you throw me in a trash can. And that’s how I felt.”
Williams had been protesting outside a Planned Parenthood facility in New York City on June 19th and 20th in 2020, which had been live streamed. During the live stream, Williams said she would “terrorize” Planned Parenthood, which her lawyer said was “rhetorical,” pointing out that Williams was “not threatening anyone with weapons, not chaining [herself] to doors[.]”
Then, a Planned Parenthood staffer opened the door where Williams was standing, hitting her in the back with the door. This eventually led to charges, which Williams believes were retaliation.
“She never said, ‘Excuse me’ or made me aware that she was there,” Williams said in a previous interview with Live Action News. “When I leaned back, she claims I slammed her hand. She didn’t go to Urgent Care until five days later and on the stand, she said it was the right hand that was slammed but in the picture, it was her left. I don’t believe she’s being as honest as she should.”
The New York Police Department, which was present on the scene, did not arrest Williams, and nothing was made of the incident until over two years later, when Roe v. Wade was overturned in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision in 2022.
Williams told Rose in her exclusive interview that something drastic changed with the Dobbs decision — the situation became something much more than political.
“I think, for them, at this point, politics went out the window and it became personal. I think that, for so long, I saw the Democrats or the left or whoever they were, what they represented as just maybe the wrong side of politics and law,” Williams said. “But I realized through this that, no, this is past that. This is an issue of good and evil. And this was — 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. And they hated me the same way that they hated Christ.”
Williams continued, telling Rose:
You know, like you said, all I do is preach the gospel. I deal with homeless. And obviously, I’m going to raise my voice about abortion. Abortion is murder. I’m going to say something when it comes to kids. I love children. They’re our future. So, for me to be treated like that, it was like, no, this is past just political issues.
She also shared her own experience with abortion.
“I had an abortion, my first one, when I was 15. My dad made me have the abortion. And at that time, I really didn’t understand what an abortion was, but I knew it was wrong. I’ll never forget when I went to get my abortion, it was in Brooklyn at the time. And there were people with signs picketing really loud in front of the abortion clinic. And I didn’t understand why. But I remember my dad’s girlfriend telling me to look down and ignore them. So then I went into the clinic. I was three months and five days. I asked to see the baby. They told me no. And then they put me to sleep. And next thing I know, I wasn’t pregnant anymore,” she said.
“But after my first abortion, the amount of depression that hit me, it was like I went downhill. I went downhill. It didn’t make my situation better. It made it worse. And it made it numb. And I had lost something. Before I had gotten pregnant, I had a love for children. Even as a little girl, I loved baby dolls. I loved kids. It was just the natural thing that God had placed in me. When I had that first abortion, that was taken from me, amongst other things.”
She added, “So then as I got older, I had my last two [abortions]. After that, I was numb. I was numb to it. It seemed normal to do. But again, I knew that it was wrong. Then once I became a Christian and I gave my life to Christ, obviously I didn’t have any issue repenting about having an abortion.”
Williams said that ultimately, she hopes that the pro-life movement will come together and “fight back for justice,” instead of simply allowing pro-abortion activists four years “just to plan and plot on how they can hurt us all over again… We have to really put our foot down and get the justice that is deserved, because what they did — it was evil. I mean, I’m never gonna sit there and act like it was not completely evil and ruthless and callous, and there has to be consequences.”
She added, “[President Trump] didn’t have to pardon me, but he did… he needs to leave a mark for what’s right in this nation, and you can’t miss it with pro-life. Life is what’s gonna keep this nation going. And if America doesn’t preserve life, we don’t have an America.”
“If all of us can do one thing, put God first, because He’s gonna be there when everything else is gone… trust God,” she said.
To find out more about Williams’ experience, and that of her husband, Rickey, watch the entire exclusive interview.
