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In Texas, a fetus is a person unless you're pregnant and driving in a HOV car-pool lane [1]
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Date: 2022-07-09
Abortion rights protesters rally in Austin, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade
Brandy Bottone was driving in the HOV car-pool lane on a Dallas expressway last month when she was stopped by a sheriff’s deputy at a checkpoint to see if there were at least two occupants in the vehicle as mandated by Texas law.
She recounted to The Washington Post that the deputy asked her, “Is it just you or is someone else riding with you.?”
“I said, ‘Oh, there’s two of us,’” Bottone said. “And he said, ‘Where?’” Bottone, who was 34 weeks pregnant at the time, pointed to her stomach. Even though she said her “baby girl is right here,” Bottone said one of the deputies she encountered on June 29 told her it had to be “two bodies outside of the body.” While the state’s penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, the Texas Transportation Code does not. Roe v. Wade. ‘So I don’t know why you’re not seeing that,’ I said,” she explained to the , the first to report the story. “One officer kind of brushed me off when I mentioned this is a living child, according to everything that’s going on with the overturning ofRoe v. Wade. ‘So I don’t know why you’re not seeing that,’ I said,” she explained to the Dallas Morning News , the first to report the story. Bottone was issued a $215 ticket for driving alone in the two-or-more occupant lane — a citation she told local media she’d be challenging in court this month. ”I will be fighting it,” Bottone, 32, of Plano, Tex., said to The Post.
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