Advancing Life and Liberty Through Action
Jan 28, 2025
With the recent pardon by President Trump of pro-lifers who were unjustly imprisoned by the federal government under the FACE act, we have an opportunity to finally repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) law that was signed by Bill Clinton in 1994.
The same week President Trump pardoned 23 pro-lifers, some of whom had been sentenced to five years in prison, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced the FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025. FACE has been used to weaponize state and federal prosecutors for 31 years. This must end NOW!
Pro-life sidewalk counselors save lives, yet FACE puts these peaceful advocates for life at risk of fines and prison for their protected speech.
Bevelyn Williams, a 33-year-old African American married mother with a 2-year-old daughter, was sentenced to more than three years under FACE. This woman, who was redeemed by Jesus Christ, was preaching and praying outside the clinic, and for this, FACE was weaponized to destroy her life.
“I was persecuted as a Christian standing for my beliefs when it comes to life,” she said in a statement.
Thank God she was pardoned. It is time to repeal FACE. It is evil.
FACE silences pro-life speech while empowering people like Merle Hoffman, the CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Center, which is an abortion clinic in New York that was involved in a FACE Act case.
Hoffman exposed the shocking depths of her depravity in her memoir, Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom.
“As we crossed the Fifty-Ninth Street Bridge, I held my stomach and said aloud, ‘Sorry little one, it’s just not time.’ My diary entry from that night reads, ‘For one night I am a mother,’” Hoffman concluded.
Hoffman knows her child is human. But it gets even worse. Hoffman states that a baby is an “unjust aggressor, threatening the survival of the mother” and that babies impede “a woman’s tendency to maintain her own existence.” She asks, “Is not a woman’s choice of abortion an act of self-defense?”
This abortionist states, “I quickly came to realize that those who deliver abortion services have … the power — and the responsibility — of taking life. … The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful.”
Hoffman’s worldview is so evil it’s hard to communicate. But the New York attorney general used FACE to silence pro-life speech so Hoffman could continue killing babies.
The FACE Act empowers monsters like Hoffman to perpetuate these lies to other women facing crisis pregnancies.
One of the women terrorized by the FACE Act is Bevelyn Williams, the 33-year-old mother I mentioned above. She leaned against an abortion clinic door and reportedly told a staff member, “Your business is gonna be over.”
This was not her first brush with abortion. At the age of 15, Bevelyn dropped out of high school and had her first abortion ... followed by two more. Then she went down a “self-destructive” path of alcohol and drugs.
After she was arrested for money laundering, she had a conversion experience and “upon her release moved forward with the determination to choose a new path.” She started a ministry for the homeless that grew into pro-life activism — to serve the most homeless of all.
This stay-at-home married mother with a 2-year-old discovered that the judge in her FACE case “made it very clear in the courtroom that she was going to make an example out of me,” said Bevelyn.
She was sentenced to about three-and-a-half years in prison, with no thought given to her being a stay-at-home mom and caregiver of her young daughter. Not even house arrest was allowed to maintain her relationship with, and continued care for, her precious daughter.
FACE has caused too much pain and inflicted injustice. This law has chilled pro-life speech and actions all across the nation, and it has harmed so many people. It is time to discard this bad law immediately.
We rely on YOU, the faithful supporters of Liberty Counsel Action, to end this injustice. We cannot accept the status quo. We must repeal FACE now and protect the next Bevelyn from being abused by the system.
Mat Staver, Chairman
John Stemberger, President
Liberty Counsel Action
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Sources:
“NY Abortionist – ‘Taking Life’ Empowers Women.” Liberty Counsel, February 16, 2018. Lc.org/newsroom/details/021618-ny-abortionist-taking-life-empowers-women-1.
Payne, Daniel. “Six Pro-Life Activists Convicted of Federal FACE Act Charges, Face over a Decade in Prison.” National Catholic Register, January 31, 2024. NCregister.com/cna/six-pro-life-activists-convicted-of-federal-face-act-charges-face-over-a-decade-in-prison.
Quiñones, Kate. “Young Mother Gets More than 3 Years in Prison for Blocking Abortion Clinic Entrance.” Catholic News Agency, July 25, 2024. Catholicnewsagency.com/news/258409/young-mother-gets-more-than-3-years-in-prison-for-blocking-abortion-clinic-entrance.
“Support Bevelyn Beatty Williams Fight for Freedom!” GiveSendGo, 2025. Givesendgo.com/BevelynBeattyWilliams.