A law went into effect in Texas in 2022 prohibiting abortion in most circumstances ... In a press release on Monday, Paxton said Rojas, a midwife known as "Dr. Maria," was illegally operating ...

Maria Margarita Rojas faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly dispensing medication abortions in the Houston area.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that a Houston-area midwife has been arrested and accused of providing illegal abortions, marking the first time authorities have filed criminal charges ...

Maria Margarita Rojas, with providing illegal abortions in violation of the state’s 2022 abortion ban. The announcement marked the first time someone in Texas was charged with providing ...

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

It started with an anonymous complaint filed to the state Health and Human Services Commission, alleging two women had received abortions at the Clinica Waller Latinoamericana in Waller. K.P., 26, had ...

A second person has been arrested in connection to a Texas midwife who is accused of providing illegal abortions at three clinics around the Houston area.

Attorney General Ken Paxton said Maria Margarita Rojas—known as “Dr. Maria ... with “illegal performance of an abortion,” which has been classified as a second degree felony since ...

Midwife Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, a second-degree felony in Texas, the state Attorney General has announced ...

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 ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas ... criminal charges against Rojas are the first charges brought under the state's abortion ban, according to ...