A pregnant woman in Texas received a ticket for driving solo in HOV lane. She's challenging the fine saying that her unborn baby is a person based on state law. Her court date and due date is on July 20.
Brandy Bottone, of Plano, Texas, was cruising on U.S. Highway 75 South in the high-occupancy vehicle lane until she was suddenly pulled over by a police officer; to drive in an HOV lane, there needs to be more than one person in the vehicle, he said.
Bottone said she didn't see the problem—she was 34 weeks pregnant. When the officer asked where the other car passenger was, she pointed to her stomach: “My baby girl is right here. She is a person.” The officer, as Bottone recalled, said that both people needed to be “outside of the body." Bottone astutely pointed out the double standard with current Texas laws: is her unborn child considered a living person or not? She told the
: “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 of"I don't know why you're not seeing that," she told the officer. Her explanation didn't fly with the officer, who gave her a
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