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Texas Abortion Case Reversal | Texas News
A Houston midwife, Maria Margarita Rojas, became the first person charged under Texas’ strict abortion ban after Roe was overturned — but a major legal twist just shifted the tide. An appeals court overturned a temporary injunction against her clinics, ruling that key evidence — including affidavits from an investigator — shouldn’t have been admitted at all. Without it, there wasn’t enough to prove abortions were performed. Chief Justice Scott Brister explained that a 1968 Texas Supreme Court decision blocks such affidavits in these hearings, leaving lower courts powerless to change it — only…
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