WALLER COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A Houston-area midwife who was the first person charged under Texas' near-total abortion ban now faces 15 additional felony counts in Waller County, according to newly filed court records.

Fifty-year-old Maria Rojas, who has denied all allegations, was indicted in June on 12 counts of practicing medicine without a license and three counts related to performing illegal abortions. The new charges were disclosed in a civil court filing by her legal team on Friday.

The development was first reported by the Houston Chronicle .

Rojas was arrested in March and accused of providing abortion-inducing medication to a patient, identified only as E.G. in court records, who told investigators that she believed Rojas was a licensed physician. The state has since move

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