Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a Houston-area midwife has been arrested and charged with providing an abortion as part of a crackdown on clinics that are alleged to provide abortion services.

Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, also known as “Dr. Maria,” is also charged with practicing medicine without a license.

Investigators allege Rojas owned several clinics and employed unlicensed individuals who posed as medical professionals. The Texas attorney general’s office also filed for a temporary restraining order to shut down the clinics...

The Texas woman who sued the state in pursuit of an emergency abortion last week was forced to travel out of state for the procedure after the Texas Supreme Court interfered in her effort to terminate the pregnancy, the group who helped her file the lawsuit said Monday.

The Center for Reproductive Rights gave an update on Kate Cox’s situation in a series of tweets.

Kate Cox, the Texas woman who filed a lawsuit last week asking for an emergency abortion, is now leaving the state to get care, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.

A Harris County judge granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday to block a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion ban in Texas, signaling a small victory for abortion rights groups.

The judge's order was in response to a lawsuit filed Monday by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union and two Texas law firms on behalf of several abortion clinics.

Under the temporary restraining order, abortions up to six weeks can resume in the state at some clinics, according to the ACLU.

The claim: Texas doesn't have a hotline for suspected school shootings, but does have a hotline for reporting women entering Planned Parenthood

Soon after the shooting massacre of 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, some social media posts claimed that Texas had a hotline for reporting abortions but not one for school shootings.

In the game of up-the-ante that Republican-controlled states are playing in their zeal to eradicate abortion rights, Oklahoma took the lead this week. Its new law doesn’t bother with heartbeat standards or clever enforcement mechanisms but just says it outright: Any doctor who performs any abortion at any time (other than to save a woman’s life) could face 10 years in prison. This is the oppression that awaits women throughout red-state America should the U.S. Supreme Court dismantle Roe v. Wade.

When the history of how American women lost their reproductive rights is written, the bill-signing that took place in Oklahoma City on Tuesday should be acknowledged as a key moment when the shrinking window of possibility that the Supreme Court might hold back from overturning Roe v. Wade essentially closed forever.

The occasion was Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signing a bill outlawing almost all abortions in the state, a move that is as plainly unconstitutional as it would be for the state to make it illegal to practice Judaism or criticize the president.

Performing an abortion in Oklahoma will be a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday — just three days after lawmakers in Maryland went the other direction by expanding not only who can perform abortions but also requiring insurance to cover the procedure at no cost to the policyholder.