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Texas charges eight people over links to midwife accused of illegal abortions

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Ken Paxton speaks at the CPAC conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on 23 February 2024. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Eight people linked to a Texas midwife accused of performing illegal abortions have been arrested, Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, announced on Wednesday.

The midwife, Maria Rojas, earlier this year became the first person to be charged under Texas laws that outlaw virtually all abortions. She is now facing three counts of performing an abortion and 12 counts of practicing medicine without a license. The new arrests were all of people indicted for practicing medicine without a license under Rojas, who operated three clinics in the Houston area, according to Paxton’s office.

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