A pregnant Texas woman who was given a traffic ticket for driving solo in an HOV lane is arguing her fetus should be considered a separate person given the state’s abortion views.
she was given the ticket on June 29 after being pulled over by police while driving on a highway near the city.
“I was driving to pick up my son. I knew I couldn’t be a minute late, so I took the HOV lane,” she told the newspaper. “As I exited the HOV, there was a checkpoint at the end of the exit. I slammed on my brakes, and I was pulled over by police.”“I pointed to my stomach and said, ‘My baby girl is right here. She is a person,’” Bottone, of Plano, told the newspaper. Bottone then mentioned the recentBottone told a cop that her unborn daughter is her second passenger.
“He was like, ‘I don’t want to deal with this.’ He said, ‘Ma’am, it means two persons outside of the body,’” she added. “This has my blood boiling. How could this be fair? According to the new law, this is a life,” Bottone said, adding that she intends to fight the ticket. The expecting mother said the overturning of Roe v. Wade should mean that her fetus counts as a separate person in Texas.
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