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Pregnant Woman Contests HOV Ticket by Saying Fetus Is Passenger After Roe v. Wade Decision
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...assenger-after-roe-v-wade-decision/ar-AAZpfWI
Brandy Bottone of Plano was 34 weeks pregnant when she told Dallas County Sheriff Department officers that her unborn fetus counts as a passenger and therefore gives her the right to use the carpool lane.
"I pointed to my stomach and said, 'My baby girl is right here. She is a person,'" Bottone recounted telling the officer when she was pulled over at a checkpoint for driving in the HOV lane on June 29, according to The Dallas Morning News.
She made her point following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn 1973's Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.
RELATED: President Joe Biden Signs Executive Order to Protect Abortion Access
Battone said the cop told her the HOV lane requires two passengers, meaning "two people outside of the body." According to the Texas penal code, the term "'Individual' means a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth."
DSPD did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
Pregnant Woman Contests HOV Ticket by Saying Fetus Is Passenger After Roe v. Wade Decision
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...assenger-after-roe-v-wade-decision/ar-AAZpfWI
Brandy Bottone of Plano was 34 weeks pregnant when she told Dallas County Sheriff Department officers that her unborn fetus counts as a passenger and therefore gives her the right to use the carpool lane.
"I pointed to my stomach and said, 'My baby girl is right here. She is a person,'" Bottone recounted telling the officer when she was pulled over at a checkpoint for driving in the HOV lane on June 29, according to The Dallas Morning News.
She made her point following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn 1973's Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.
RELATED: President Joe Biden Signs Executive Order to Protect Abortion Access
Battone said the cop told her the HOV lane requires two passengers, meaning "two people outside of the body." According to the Texas penal code, the term "'Individual' means a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth."
DSPD did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
