BREAKING: Ken Paxton EXPOSED for Shutting Down Abortion Clinics
The Texas Attorney General padlocked a midwife’s life’s work on the strength of an anonymous email. This week, a court he’d expect to be friendly threw the order out.
In March 2025, a Waller County court ordered Maria Margarita Rojas to shut down her clinics.
The order came at the request of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office accused the Houston-area midwife of performing illegal abortions and practicing medicine without a license. Three clinics that served a largely Latino, working-class community north of Houston closed their doors. Rojas, who had trained and worked as a midwife for decades, was out of business overnight, before a single one of those accusations had been tested at trial.
This Thursday, a Texas appeals court threw that order out.
Here is the part Paxton would rather you skip past: the court that reversed him was not some liberal panel. The Fifteenth Court of Appeals was created in 2023 by the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature to handle the state’s civil and business cases. Its judges were appointed by Governor Greg Abbott. All three who heard this case are Republicans.
And they still couldn’t find enough evidence to justify what Paxton had done.
An Anonymous Email
The appeals court found that the trial judge should never have granted the injunction in the first place.
Paxton’s office had leaned on probable-cause affidavits pulled from a separate criminal case against Rojas — the appeals court said this evidence had no business being admitted in this civil proceeding. Strip that out, and what remained, in the words of the court’s opinion, “does not reasonably support” the claim that abortions were ever performed at the clinics. The panel concluded the lower court had abused its discretion.
Reporting on the ruling describes the state’s case as resting, in significant part, on a single anonymous email.
An anonymous email. That was the foundation on which the Attorney General of Texas closed a woman’s clinics and ended her career.
If that method sounds familiar, it should. Paxton’s marquee reproductive-health case — the multibillion-dollar False Claims Act suit that seeks to bankrupt Planned Parenthood in Texas — was itself built around an anonymous plaintiff tied to an anti-abortion activist group. Anonymous accusers, maximum penalties, clinics forced to fight for their survival before the facts are ever weighed: this is not an accident of one case. It is the model.
“The damage is done”
Winning the appeal did not give Rojas her life back.
Her attorneys at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented her, put it bluntly: the damage is done. Even with the injunction gone, Rojas has lost her clinics and, her lawyers say, her ability to practice the profession she spent decades building. You can win the case and still lose everything, if the state can shutter you first and litigate later.
And Rojas is not off the hook. She remains the first person criminally charged under Texas’s near-total abortion ban which is a first-degree felony that carries a sentence of up to life in prison. The appeals court did not touch those charges. It ruled narrowly, on one question: whether Paxton had cleared the legal bar required to shut her clinics down.
He hadn’t.
The Machine Texas Built
This is what Texas constructed after Dobbs: a near-total ban, an implicit prize for the first prosecution, and an Attorney General eager to claim it.
Paxton moved to close Rojas’s clinics before his accusations had been tested. He got his headline. The clinics closed. The community lost its care. And only now, more than a year later, has a court gotten around to saying that the evidence was never strong enough to support the order in the first place.
Paxton says he will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court. He may yet win there. But strip away the press releases and the machinery, and here is what actually happened: the top law enforcement officer in Texas used an anonymous tip to padlock a midwife’s clinics, ended her career, and could not convince even his own party’s judges that he had done it right.
That is not a prosecution. It is a warning shot to every provider in Texas about what the state can do to you before it ever has to prove a thing.
Paxton belongs in prison
They are pro birth not pro life.