A Texas Midwife Was Arrested for Allegedly Providing Illegal Abortions: Here Is Everything You Need to Know
Here are the facts. What happened? Rojass clinics provided health care to low-income and primarily Spanish-speaking communities. Montinique Monroe/Getty Images Will the midwife face jail time? Were the patients charged with anything? The people Rojas is alleged to have provided with abortions were not criminally prosecuted. Per Paxtons press release, Texas law holds abortion providersnot patientscriminally responsible for unlawful procedures. More often, the criminal penalties apply to the person performing the abortion....