A midwife in Texas could face up to 20 years in prison for providing reproductive health care in the state, which has one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. The arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas marks the first criminal case against an alleged abortion provider in Texas since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022 — and a major escalation in the far right’s war against bodily autonomy.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday that Rojas, 48, had been arrested on charges of providing illegal abortions and practicing medicine without a license. One of her employees, Jose Ley, was also arrested for providing an abortion and practicing without a license. Providing an abortion in Texas is punishable by up to life in prison and up to $100,000 in civil fines.
“I’m in for attempted murder, what are you in for?”
“I gave a 14 year old an abortion after her uncle raped her.”
Doctors are welcome to relocate to Canada. BC is revamping the process so a qualified US Doctor can start practising here in about 6 weeks.
Ken Paxton needs to be run over by a parade of cyberbricks.
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Show up for jury duty.
GUNS
Yeah, Texas is know for a dearth of guns.
If i shoot my baby accidentally do i get more or less jail time?
Because shooting police offers who come to arrest you will definitely make things better…
COWARD
So, what’s your body count?
Or do you just goad others into doing your dirty work?
practicing medicine without a license.
Hot take, but anyone should be arrested for this, regardless of what procedure they were doing.
(Assuming the states ‘Good Samaritan’ laws doesn’t protect them from practicing otherwise.)
Edit: Everybody is forgetting that back alley abortions used to be a horrible thing, stopped for a reason. Find other ways to protest, keep people safe.
Rojas, known as “Dr. Maria,” is a nurse practitioner who has been a licensed midwife in the US since 2018; she previously worked as an obstetrician in Peru. She owns and, before her arrest, operated four health care clinics in the Houston area called Clínicas Latinoamericanas, which predominantly serve low-income Spanish-speaking patients.
If you don’t want back-alley abortions to become the norm, then you must be in favor of Roe V. Wade, no? Making legal abortions illegal, will only increase the number of back alley abortions.
If you don’t want back-alley abortions to become the norm, then you must be in favor of Roe V. Wade, no?
I’ve already discussed this point elsewhere, in this conversation.
Rojas, known as “Dr. Maria,” is a nurse practitioner who has been a licensed midwife in the US since 2018;
I’ve already discussed this point elsewhere, in this conversation.
You’re up and down this thread misrepresenting the facts here.
These are medication abortions, and the safety of those procedures is pretty well established, especially when supervised at a clinic. There’s no surgery involved.
You’re up and down this thread misrepresenting the facts here.
No, I"m not. I’m expressing an opinion on a general topic, not speaking specifically about this case. This specific case was just a trigger for me to comment generally.
These are medication abortions,
The article is paywalled, and I cannot read it, so I’m determining my opinion based on what I read in the summary of this post …
providing illegal abortions and practicing medicine without a license
She wouldn’t have been arrested for dispensing legally obtainable pills, normaly. The patient would just order the meds online and take them themselves.
Someone else weaponizing laws for political gains is a different conversation.
There’s no surgery involved.
Not for the mid/late-term ones.
The article is paywalled, and I cannot read it, so I’m determining my opinion based on what I read in the summary of this post …
So, you don’t have anything relevant to this conversation. And there’s quite a few ways to get around a paywall these days; that’s a terrible excuse, just makes you sound insincere from the get go.
The article is paywalled, and I cannot read it, so I’m determining my opinion based on what I read in the summary of this post
Here’s a suggestion: how about instead of forming your opinion based on known incomplete data, you decide instead to just, like, not form an opinion at all until you get that information, much less spout off based on your own speculation.
She wouldn’t have been arrested for dispensing legally obtainable pills, normaly.
???
They made abortion illegal in Texas. She performed abortions in the manner that is legal elsewhere, using a procedure that matches the standard of care where it is legal, under training and qualifications that are sufficient elsewhere. So she was arrested for dispensing pills normally and in the manner that they are regulated elsewhere. This is the safe and legal method elsewhere, and was the safe and legal method in Texas until recently.
Comparing it to back alley abortions is intentionally misleading to the point of dishonesty.
There’s no surgery involved.
Not for the mid/late-term ones.
She…didn’t perform any of those. I’m going off of the facts of what she is being accused of doing in the criminal charges.
Here’s a suggestion: how about instead of forming your opinion based on known incomplete data, you decide instead to just, like, not form an opinion at all until you get that information, much less spout off based on your own speculation.
You say the same thing to everyone else who’s responding with comments in this post, since they too are just working off the post summary?
Instead of blaming a victim, why don’t you get on the case of whoever made the post, for having an incomplete summary instead.
I’m going off of the facts of what she is being accused of doing in the criminal charges.
Please show me in the summary for the article that this post was about where it states that?
Instead of blaming a victim, why don’t you get on the case of whoever made the post, for having an incomplete summary instead.
The summary contained what the person who posted it thought was important. You thought something else was important and then started making up conjecture about that, instead of looking it up yourself.
This is clown behavior. You’re not a victim of anything but your own ignorance. Digging in your heels, intentionally obtuse to the facts of the story you want to speculate about, is not productive. If you didn’t know, you’re welcome to look up the facts yourself, instead of claiming in multiple comments throughout this thread that this lady was a midwife performing surgical abortions, and that the actual charged conduct compares to the days of back alley abortions.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/
https://www.thecut.com/article/texas-abortion-arrest-maria-margarita-rojas-midwife.html
You’re welcome.
You say the same thing to everyone else who’s responding with comments in this post, since they too are just working off the post summary?
Please show me in the summary for the article that this post was about where it states that?
Hot take, but the GOP has been using the technicality of shitty laws they pass to give cover for your hot take.
Parsing up the fine details of this completely avoidable, ridiculously stupid action taken by Texas officials is important to having an honest conversation
Hot take, but the GOP has been using the technicality of shitty laws they pass to give cover for your hot take.
Vote them out. And if you can’t, then deal with it (protest verbally, etc.), or move to another place without those lawmakers.
Parsing up the fine details of this completely avoidable, ridiculously stupid action taken by Texas officials is important to having an honest conversation
I have no problem talking about it. Seeing back alley abortions be a thing again, not so much.
Killing fascists is a very good alternative to voting them out
