Chip Roy Files Bill to Repeal FACE Law Biden Used to Put Pro-Life Americans in Prison
As pro-life activists await pardons from President Donald Trump, a key Republican member of Congress is introducing legislation targeting the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the FACE Act, which “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services.”
“Now that we have a Republican trifecta in the House, Senate, and White House, Congress should move quickly to repeal this law and ensure that no future president can weaponize it against pro-lifers ever again,” Roy said in a statement.
“Free Americans should never live in fear of their government targeting them because of their beliefs,” Roy has said. “Yet, Biden’s Department of Justice has brazenly weaponized the FACE Act against normal, everyday Americans across the political spectrum, simply because they are pro-life.”
“Our Constitution separates power between the federal government and the states for a reason, and we ignore that safeguard at our own peril,” he added. “The FACE Act is an unconstitutional federal takeover of state police powers; it must be repealed.”
The bill comes as 21 pro-life advocates like Bevelyn Williams await a prdon from President Trump.
In a confusing ordeal yesterday, Bevelyn’s husband Rickey posted on X that he was on his way to pick Beveleyn up from federal prison, only to find out that she had not yet been pardoned or released. Today, Rickey says Beveleyn is confused why people imprisoned for their roles in the January 6 protest have been pardoned and released, but she remains in federal prison.
“I just got off the phone with my wife @MrsBevelynW. J6ers that were there with her in FCI just got released. She is still there waiting and she is honestly confused. I am confused as well as to why she hasn’t been pardoned along with the other 20 Pro-Lifers?” he wrote on X this morning.
Rickey believes that the pardon is forthcoming but wishes communication about it and details of her release from the Alabama prison was improved.
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“There isn’t uncertainty but communication is important,” he added.
Rickey added that officials at the prison told him to go back home.
“This is what they told me before Trump signed the pardon for J6ers as I was waiting for my wife. I was told to LEAVE the property! That it was a federal holiday and they were understaffed! Not just that, we haven’t heard much about the 21 Pro-Lifers still locked up in Federal Prison or much about their pardons just yet including my wife,” he explained.
Williams, who was found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for blocking access to an abortion clinic in 2020, is in the process of appealing appealing her sentence of 41 months in prison.
Williams was specifically accused of blocking entrance to an abortion business and preventing a volunteer from entering. As she blocked the door, according to the court, a staff member tried to open for the volunteer, and Williams leaned against the door, hurting the staff member’s hand — an injury that clearly didn’t warrant three years in federal prison.
Bevelyn’s husband Rickey announced yesterday on X that he was in the process of picking her up from the prison.
“I haven’t gotten news that President Trump pardoned my wife just yet. He is going to but I haven’t gotten word but I know she will be released soon,” Mr. Williams told LifeNews. “I know that is coming.”
Williams called her three-year sentence devastating, saying that, “Not only is this bond extensive for the accused crime, but [Judge Jennifer Rochan] made it very clear in the courtroom that she was going to [make an] example out of me. The concern of being a young mother, and a stay-at-home mother, was completely disregarded.”
Williams expressed concern over the length of the ruling as it would separate her from her toddler-aged daughter. The judge had told her before the sentence “that I was young and that I would not be defined by my sentence, before making a conscious decision to take me away from my two-year-old daughter for three years.”
Bevelyn had a traumatic past before she started her pro-life ministry, and she was abused at a young age, dropped out of high school at 15, used drugs, had two abortions, and was arrested for money laundering in an attempt to pay her rent. In prison, she met a woman who inspired her to change her life and surrender her life to the Lord. Soon after Williams started living her life as a Christian and eventually felt called to start a ministry.
Williams’ ministry, At the Well, provides spiritual formation for Christians and physical aid for the needy. Their mission statement is “to evangelize/minister wherever God leads to tell people about the love of Jesus Christ.” Some of their mandates include to “Boldly and unapologetically preach the gospel on the streets and public square,” to “Speak up, stand for Life and demand that abortion be abolished,” and to “Demand righteousness & justice through cultural & spiritual agitation.”
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