The arrest appears to be the first time a health care provider in Texas has been criminally charged under the state’s ...

( NewsNation) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a Houston-area midwife has been arrested and charged with providing an abortion as part of a crackdown on clinics that are alleged to ...

Holly Shearman, clinical director of Tomball Birth Center, where Rojas worked part-time, told The Tribune she was shocked by the arrest. She described Rojas as a skilled midwife who provided care to a ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is pursuing legal action against women who have either provided abortions or prescribed abortion-inducing drugs in Texas in violation of state laws. On Monday, Paxton ...

Paxton said that an investigation would be taking place into the clinics Rojas owned that unlawfully employed people who didn ...

A Houston-area midwife is being accused of performing illegal abortions and practicing medicine illegally — the first criminal case to be filed under the state’s abortion ban. But with Texas law ...

What happened: The flights were in the air when Washington, D.C. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that they should return to the U.S. while the case was litigated. But they continued to ...

Maria Margarita Rojas faces criminal charges for allegedly providing abortions in Texas, where there is a near-total abortion ...

Rojas is the first person to be arrested under Texas' abortion trigger ban, HB 1280, which took effect in August 2022.

In what appears to be the first arrest of an alleged Texas abortion provider since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, a 48-year-old midwife known as “Dr. Maria,” for allegedly performing illegal abortions and operating unlicensed ...

It marks the first time authorities have filed criminal charges under the state’s near-total abortion ban, the Texas attorney ...