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.
Do you make all your moral choices based on the written law of Texas?
No, but I do make them based on the written law of wherever I’m at.
And as I’ve mentioned already (further down), morally, life is greater than law.
But you can’t open the floodgates to anybody practicing surgery on others for protest reasons. We were there before, with back alley abortions, many that went bad. The laws are there for a reason. (Politicians abusing laws is a different matter.)
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