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Lisa Flynn Scroggins's avatar

A midwife is trained primarily to aid in the BIRTHS of babies. My guess is that she probably had a patient who was having a miscarriage and she did what for decades was the standard of care, instead of letting her patient suffer in agony, as most practitioners feel compelled to do by the ridiculous laws in Texas. How can we help this woman? Where is she now?

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Lyn's avatar

These are important cautions, thanks Jessica! What is the best way to support Maria Rojas and Maggie Carpenter?

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Penny's avatar

It sounds like from the articles that Rojas could have given the pills because she could not find a viable pregnancy. We need to wait until all the facts come out.

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Alpaca22's avatar

Aside from any gofundme how do we show Paxton that she has nationwide support

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Linda Bower's avatar

Texas should be shut down until it learns how to behave.

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Mugs Haugen's avatar

Thank you for this important info! Please let us know what we can do for this mid-wife. I hope you can publish an article somewhere that will get some more attention! I share your Substack often!

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Margaret Meyer's avatar

Please let us know if we can financially assist Maria if needed.

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Beverly Falls's avatar

We need information, and as they say, a lie goes halfway around the world before the truth gets it's shoes on.

Do not amplify propaganda.

And most of all, go with the current PPH slogan:

CARE. No Matter What.

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Paul Pikowsky's avatar

I heard it here first. The local mainstream media here in Northern California is very lukewarm in reporting about the abortion issue.

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Lesley's avatar

Here’s another POS: Josh Hawley. His wife (anti-choice asshole and apparently mediocre atty) lost her case against the Biden Administration, when she tried to limit access to mifepristone. So Josh Hawley had the lawyer who beat his wife in the Supreme Court, pushed out of her DOJ job.

Here’s a free link to the story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/lawyer-fda-abortion-josh-hawley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.s4KX.1L1kkfyhnjyY&smid=url-share

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

I quickly scanned that story at the NYT, following your posted link. (I refuse to subscribe to the Vichy NYT.) Note that Hilary Perkins, the forced out lawyer, not only was quoted that Josh Hawley misrepresented her completely in his posts, while getting her pushed out, but that he should have protected her:

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“Senator Hawley’s accusations against me are false,” Ms. Perkins told The New York Times. “I am not who he says I am. I am a Christian who is both conservative and pro-life and who simply followed my oath as a Department of Justice career attorney. He should be fighting for me, not against me.”

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Also according to the article, she had succeeded at sometimes limiting the distribution of Mifepristone while she had worked at the FDA. Interesting that they will turn on their own for petty or vindictive reasons, not just for dominion power.

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Linda Bower's avatar

I think it makes perfect sense. She’s a woman so therefore can’t be trusted even though she’s antiabortion. They installed a sure bet now.

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Denny Edwards's avatar

I agree with the comments here. Paxton is a POS. Who thinks he’s like trump and king in the making.

As someone asked earlier where can donations for legal fees or any other type of need be made to?

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Charlotte Dunham's avatar

Paxton is like Trump because he has criminal charges pending. The only way he avoids them is by being in office. Sound familiar?

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Denny Edwards's avatar

Agree! Like trump, somehow he turned enough state senators into puppets so they declined to vote him guilty in his impeachment trial! An impeachment brought forth by a republican senator!

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Vicki Ringer's avatar

I detest Ken Paxton with every fiber of my being.

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Deb Lynch's avatar

We are expecting his office to come after us soon. The Austin Statesman did a feature story on Her Safe Harbor last month and we put ourselves right out there.

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Zach's avatar

Keep us updated, and thank you.

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Rachel Barnes's avatar

Jessica, you are so on the ball about local media lying about abortion storytellers and misrepresenting their stories. I tried to tell local media where I live about my abortion story when Dobbs happened to try to show pregnancy can be dangerous and have lasting consequences on one's body. They had me come in only to pretty much gang up on me and berate me about where was my husband and why didn't he come and how he felt about all of it like my call didn't matter in my own story. I had to seek a lawyer they mangled my story so badly. It never aired but the experience was harrowing. I just wanted to let other ppl know how pregnancy ravaged my body to this day. The local media made it a horrific experience.

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Kathy Ayers's avatar

Rachel, may I please ask what state you are or were in when this happened? Insanity.

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Rachel Barnes's avatar

West Virginia

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Julie Sloane's avatar

I’m so sorry that you went through that. How heartless that they would treat you that way! The callous lack of empathy is staggering.

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Beverly Falls's avatar

So sorry for what they put you through.

Women can and do still die of pregnancy complications.

Not having a say in your own body and health is not freedom.

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William Greenberg's avatar

Good article in the New Republic by Katherine Steward about the spread of this kind of fanaticism abroad to places like the U.K.

https://newrepublic.com/article/192101/american-christian-right-coming-united-kingdom?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_weekly

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Sue Connaughton's avatar

Thanks for the update and warning. I think you are absolutely correct about Paxton picking this midwife for prosecution believing she and her patients will not receive sympathy from the general public. The trump administration is doing the same thing with deportations by choosing people who may not receive the benefit of the doubt from the public. Male Venezuelan immigrants with tattoos- who, with no evidence, are alleged to be criminal gang members. Palestinian students who participated in anti-Israel protests, who, with no evidence, are alleged to be associated with Hamas.

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Susan M's avatar

I’m sure it is no small coincidence that they targeted a hispanic woman, knowing the current anti-immigrant environment is well suited for further demonizing her. 😞

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