Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared March 17 and was updated March 18 in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/. The Texas Tribune is a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engaging Texans on state politics and policy.
Two people have been arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions at a Houston-area health clinic, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total abortion ban.