{"id":36267,"date":"2025-03-17T22:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/houston-area-midwife-arrested-for-providing-illegal-abortions-in-first-criminal-case-under-state-ban-texas-ag\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:52:33","slug":"houston-area-midwife-arrested-for-providing-illegal-abortions-in-first-criminal-case-under-state-ban-texas-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/houston-area-midwife-arrested-for-providing-illegal-abortions-in-first-criminal-case-under-state-ban-texas-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-area midwife arrested for providing illegal abortions in first criminal case under state ban: Texas AG"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Houston-area midwife has been arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions<\/a>, the first such arrest under Texas’ near-total abortion ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, who identified herself as “Dr. Maria” is charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, a second-degree felony, as well as practicing medicine without a license, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“In Texas, life is sacred,” Paxton said in a statement. “I will always do everything in my power to protect the unborn, defend our state\u2019s pro-life laws, and work to ensure that unlicensed individuals endangering the lives of women by performing illegal abortions are fully prosecuted.”<\/p>\n

“Texas law protecting life is clear, and we will hold those who violate it accountable,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rojas allegedly operated a network of clinics in the Houston suburbs of Waller, Cypress<\/a> and Spring. The clinics “unlawfully employed unlicensed individuals who falsely presented themselves as licensed medical professionals,” Paxton’s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rojas herself is accused of performing illegal abortions in the clinics, in violation of the Under the Texas Human Life Protection Act of 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Abortions are banned in Texas, except in certain circumstances to save the life of a pregnant woman. Texas holds abortion providers, not patients, criminally responsible<\/a> for illegal procedures, Paxton’s office said.<\/p>\n

John Seago, president of Texas Right to Life, a pro-life group that opposes abortion, praised the arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Abortionists haven\u2019t given up their fight for Texas; they\u2019ve gone online and underground,” Seago said. “God made every child in His image. That\u2019s why preborn babies killed in illegal abortions deserve justice.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Waller County District Attorney Sean Whittmore referred the case to Paxton’s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In Waller County, we respect all life,” Whittmore told Fox News Digital. “We expect people to follow the law in the state of Texas.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to the clinics where the alleged abortions were performed.<\/p>\n

In addition to the arrest, the Healthcare Program<\/a> Enforcement Division of the Attorney General’s Office filed for a temporary restraining order to shut down the clinics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Houston-area midwife has been arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions, the first such arrest under Texas’ near-total abortion ban.\u00a0 Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, who identified herself as “Dr. Maria” is charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, a second-degree felony, as well as practicing medicine without a license, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}