Texas arrested a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Houston area, the state attorney general said on Monday. Texas has heavily restricted abortion since the federal right to the procedure was overturned in a Supreme Court ruling in 2022.

A Houston-area midwife was arrested for providing illegal abortions, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said Monday, marking the first criminal charges under the state’s near-total abortion ban. Maria Margarita Rojas,