Unlicensed midwife, worker busted for performing illegal abortions: Texas AG Paxton



Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced this week the arrest of three individuals tied to an investigation into illegal abortions.

On Monday, a press release from Paxton’s office stated that Maria Margarita Rojas, a 48-year-old midwife, was detained “for providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area.”

'Anyone guilty of violating our state’s pro-life laws is held accountable.'

While Rojas’ clients referred to her as “Dr. Maria,” she now faces a second-degree felony for “practicing medicine without a license” and illegally performing abortions, according to Paxton’s office.

Rojas reportedly owned and operated several Texas health clinics, including Clinica Waller Latinoamericana in Waller, Clinica Latinoamericana Telge in Cypress, and Latinoamericana Medical Clinic in Spring.

The AG’s office stated that the clinics “unlawfully employed unlicensed individuals who falsely presented themselves as licensed medical professionals to provide medical treatment.”

“Rojas also performed illegal abortion procedures in her clinics in direct violation of the Texas Human Life Protection Act,” the press release added. “In addition to the arrest, Attorney General Paxton’s Healthcare Program Enforcement Division filed for a temporary restraining order to shut down Rojas’s network of clinics to prevent further illegal activity.”

On Tuesday, Paxton’s office issued a second press release announcing the arrest of 29-year-old Jose Manuel Cendan Ley, who allegedly assisted Rojas with at least one illegal abortion. He is also accused of practicing medicine without a license.

“Ley is a Cuban national who entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and was later paroled under the open borders policies enacted by the lawless Biden Administration,” Paxton’s office stated.

Citing court records, the Texas Tribune reported that Rojas was first arrested on March 6 and held on $10,000 bond for allegedly practicing without a medical license. On Monday, she was arrested again with Ley on additional charges, including performing illicit abortions. A Waller County judge set their bonds at $500,000 for the illegal abortion charges and $200,000 for charges related to practicing without a medical license.

Rubildo Labanino Matos, 54, was arrested as part of the same investigation. Matos, a nurse practitioner placed on probation, is also accused of the unlicensed practice of medicine.

Paxton’s office stated that the investigation remains ongoing.

“Individuals killing unborn babies by performing illegal abortions in Texas will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and I will not rest until justice is served,” Paxton said. “I will continue to fight to protect life and work to ensure that anyone guilty of violating our state’s pro-life laws is held accountable.”

Paxton’s office noted that abortion providers, not patients, can be held criminally responsible under Texas law.

Rojas did not respond to a request for comment from KPRC. Calls to her clinics were not answered, the Texas Tribune reported.

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Democrats are using Amber Thurman as abortion propaganda — and why that's wrong



A young mother tragically passed away after taking the abortion pill and encountering severe complications.

Her name was Amber Thurman, and she’s become the latest political pawn whose untimely death is being used to push political propaganda — specifically, and twistedly, abortion propaganda.

“Democrats, the media, and activists are trying to blame Georgia’s pro-life law and Donald Trump for her death,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments, noting that Thurman passed away in 2022 — but it’s just making headlines now.

Thurman was nine weeks pregnant with twins when she decided to take abortion pills that would end the lives of her two babies, before becoming critically ill hours after taking the second pill.

She was rushed to the hospital where the doctors failed to treat her appropriately, and she later died of sepsis.

“Now, the pro-abortion side is blaming Georgia’s abortion ban for the doctor’s unwillingness to act, and ultimately, for her death,” Stuckey says, noting that Thurman had scheduled a D&C abortion in North Carolina, which stands for dilation and curettage.

“There’s actually a vacuum tube that is placed in the cervix of the mother into the uterus to suck these living babies out of the womb. Now, the hope is at that point that those babies are already dead, because there’s a variety of ways that they try to starve and poison the babies before the D&C, but that is not always the case,” she explains.

Thurman had reportedly gotten stuck in traffic and missed her appointment and was offered two abortion pills instead.

“From my understanding, without even seeing her, without even doing another ultrasound confirming how far along she was, this Planned Parenthood just said, ‘Yeah, here, take these abortion pills,’” Stuckey explains, adding, “and this is approved, by the way, by the FDA.”

At first Thurman was only suffering cramps, but after taking the second pill, she began bleeding profusely. When she made it to the hospital, they found she still had baby remnants in her uterus and an infection.

“Unfortunately, this happens far too often in these situations,” Stuckey says. “And you’ll remember, it is the abortion lobby that has fought tooth and nail against every single Republican legislative attempt to ensure that women are under a doctor’s care when they are going through an abortion.”

Now, the Democrat Party is blaming Georgia’s pro-life laws for Thurman’s death. However, the law specifically offered an exception for cases like Thurman’s.

“If the act performed with the purpose of removing a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion or removing an ectopic pregnancy,” it is allowed.

“So definitely she could have legally gotten a D&C after her baby had died inside of her in the state of Georgia. That is completely legal,” Stuckey says.


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Donald Trump’s voter base has a lot of policy opinions in common, but one in particular is very important to many of them: abortion.

Now, Trump is facing backlash from pro-life activists for calling Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ signing of a six-week ban on abortion a “terrible mistake.”

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump also repeatedly refused to say whether he would support a federal ban on abortion.

Conservative commentator and Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro is one of many conservatives who is not happy with Trump’s statements, saying, “That is not a pro-life position by any stretch of the imagination.”

“He made a comment suggesting that heartbeat bills, like to protect the lives of the unborn in states, are terrible. Which is not only not pro-life, it’s an awful thing to say,” Shapiro continues.

Shapiro also believes that what Trump said was “morally egregious,” explaining that Trump believes “heartbeat bills, you know, to protect babies in the womb past week five, week six, those are terrible.”

Dave Rubin doesn’t agree with Shapiro on what public policy related to abortion should be, but believes that “everything Ben said there was right.”

“Ben is completely right there on the equivocation that Trump is doing, that somehow this has been terrible,” he adds. “It doesn’t really make sense.”


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