Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has charged eight midwives with practicing medicine without a license. The eight people are alleged to have run an abortion ring. Paxton referred to the group as “a cabal of abortion-loving radicals” who “endangered the very people they pretended to help.”
The arrests came from an investigation into Maria Margarita Rojas, 49, who was the first to be charged under Texas’ SCOTUS-affirmed law, the Texas Human Life Protection Act. The eight arrested have not been charged, yet, with performing an abortion like Rojas has, though there is reason to believe that might be forthcoming.
Texas arrests 8 in widening probe of midwife accused of illegal abortions
from WCCS AM1160 & 101.1FM
Eight people linked to a Houston-area midwife accused of allegedly performing illegal abortions have been arrested and indicted for practicing medicine without a license, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday.
In a statement shared online, Paxton described the group as “a cabal of abortion-loving radicals” who “endangered the very people they pretended to help.”
The arrests are the latest development in an investigation into Maria Margarita Rojas, 49,who earlier in 2025 became the first to be charged under the Texas Human Life Protection Act.
Rojas faces 15 felony counts, including three for performing an abortion and 12 for practicing medicine without a license. Her case is ongoing.
Paxton said the eight new defendants were working under Rojas at her clinics in Waller, Cypress, Spring, and Katy.
Those charged were identified as Yaimara Hernandez Alvarez, Alina Valeron Leon, Dalia Coromoto Yanez, Yhonder Lebrun Acosta, Liunet Grandales Estrada, Gerardo Otero Aguero, Sabiel Bosch Gongora, and Jose Manuel Cendan Ley.
