For several months, state investigators in Texas staked out clinics, interviewed witnesses and dove through dumpsters to look for evidence. Why, you may ask, did the government pour time and money into an extensive surveillance operation based on an anonymous tip? To arrest a midwife for providing reproductive health care. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...
A midwife in the Houston area on Monday became the first person to be criminally charged under Texas’ abortion ban, with Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton accusing Maria Margarita Rojas of providing illegal abortion care and practicing medicine without a license. If convicted, Rojas faces up to 20 years in prison under the state’s...
