{"id":3140,"date":"2025-03-19T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2025-03-19T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:04:36","slug":"texas-starts-arresting-abortion-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3140","title":{"rendered":"Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 23, 2024. <\/span>
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A midwife in<\/span> Texas could face<\/a> up to 20 years in prison for providing reproductive health care in the state, which has one of the nation\u2019s 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 \u2014 and a major escalation in the far right\u2019s war against bodily autonomy.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> for providing an abortion and practicing without a license. Providing an abortion in Texas is punishable<\/a> by up to life in prison and up to $100,000 in civil fines.<\/p>\n

The arrest of health care workers is Texas\u2019s latest move to distinguish itself as a pioneer when it comes to the removal of vital reproductive health care \u2014 and in the most violent of ways. Both in terms of legislative attacks, and Paxton\u2019s campaign to use every pernicious law on the books to punish those providing and seeking abortion care, Texas continues to set a chilling, reactionary standard.<\/p>\n

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