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Texas Doctor Decides to Mess Around and Find Out – Possible Felony Charges for Illegal Abortion

Stephenville, TX — William Rockwell Evans just earned his place in Operation Rescue’s Dirty Doctors Digest after the Texas Board of Medicine (TBM) caught him prescribing an “abortive” to a patient with whom he had already engaged in an “inappropriate sexual relationship.”

According to documents from the TBM, Evans was notified on September 4, 2026, that his medical license was “revoked immediately,” calling the determination “final.” He has thirty days to appeal.

Evans was also disciplined in 2020, when he not only operated on the wrong knee of a patient, but then intentionally withheld his mistake from the patient’s spouse when he spoke to the family in the waiting room post-procedure. In an attempt to conceal the truth, Evans somehow obtained consent from the spouse to operate on the wrong knee right there in the waiting room. When confronted with these findings from the Board, Evans readily agreed to a “non-disciplinary remedial plan” to avoid the “cost and uncertainty of litigation” – that is, to avoid being found undeniably guilty and then be required to pay up for it.

“This guy already showed the Board of Medicine that he was both incompetent and lacked all integrity when he tricked a patient’s family to cover his own surgical malpractice in 2020,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “It’s no surprise that he is now willing to offer illegal abortions. In fact, this is how many abortionists end up in the industry – they are bottom-of-the-barrel doctors who have failed in other fields, or resorted to abortion to cover their own illicit actions. It will not surprise me one bit if he resurfaces in another state as a full-time abortionist.”

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Of course, that’s only if Evans avoids prison time. In addition to losing his medical license, Evans could face civil or criminal penalties. Under current Texas law, attempting an illegal abortion is a felony and carries a penalty of at least $100,000 for just one violation.

Newman adds, “Evans chose to pursue an inappropriate relationship with a patient, whom we can only assume he then impregnated and, in an attempt to yet again save himself at the cost of others, prescribed some kind of illegal abortifacient. Clearly, he expected his unborn child to pay the price for his own actions – and to do so in abortion-free Texas, where he risks a felony charge, just shows how privileged this doctor thinks he really is.”

This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Sarah Neely, is Chief Operating Officer for Operation Rescue.

Troy Newman

Adopted at birth and raised in San Diego, Troy Newman has more than 27 years of experience and leadership in business and pro-life ministry and has had great success growing Christian organizations. As president of Operation Rescue since 1999, Troy offers a rare blend of theological wisdom and organizational strengths. Troy has authored 3 books: Their Blood Cries Out, Am I Now Your Enemy for Telling You the Truth, Refusing and Abortion Free. Troy and his wife, Mellissa, homeschool their five children on a small hobby farm in Kansas.

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