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Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers (theintercept.com)

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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.

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[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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?

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?

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[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/houston-texas-midwife-arrested-abortions-clinics/285-b028b728-0db8-4e4f-9255-7f6f11c77f47

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/texas-midwife-abortion-investigation-update-20227667.php

https://www.thecut.com/article/texas-abortion-arrest-maria-margarita-rojas-midwife.html

You're welcome.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

You say the same thing to everyone else who’s responding with comments in this post?

Please show me in the summary for the article that this post was about where it states that?

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