Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers
Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers
The arrest of a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions is the latest attack on reproductive care.
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.
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.
GUNS
Ken Paxton needs to be run over by a parade of cyberbricks.
I didn't want to spend time looking for a gif of this but a cybertruck, but it's pretty much what would happen
How excited do you think he was that her last name was “Rojas”?
We crossed the Rubicon weeks ago. Light your torch.
Show up for jury duty.
Time to start arresting Texans then..
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.
Do you make all your moral choices based on the written law of Texas?
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.)
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.
Normally I’d agree
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.
Given that in other states, nps are qualified to provide abortions (and they can apparently own medical clinics in this one), this seems more like an issue caused by the laws in Texas than helped by them.
this seems more like an issue caused by the laws in Texas than helped by them.
If midwives are "licensed" to do that procedure, then they shouldn't be using that as an excuse for their arrest. Would just depend how the laws are written, really.
Bottom line though, if you’re not legally cleared to do the procedure, then you should be arrested if you do the procedure.
That's reasonable, but it's a red herring. Many states enable midwives to perform abortion care.
That’s reasonable, but it’s a red herring. Many states enable midwives to perform abortion care.
Apparently it's not a red herring in Texas though. Just depends on how the laws are written there, how much a midwife can do or not.
Bottom line, if you’re not legally cleared to do the procedure, then you should be arrested if you do the procedure.