In Texas, midwife Maria Margarita Rojas and assistant Jose Ley face felony charges for allegedly providing abortions, the first arrests under the state’s near-total ban since Roe was overturned in 2022 . Attorney General Ken Paxton boasts of jailing healthcare workers—Rojas held on a $500,000 bond—while ignoring the absurdity: punishing those trained to heal, not harm. Over 50,000 abortions occurred safely in Texas in 2020; now, caregivers risk decades in prison. It’s not justice—it’s dystopian control.
Texas Abortion Arrests
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Childish games, indeed….