Pregnant Woman Fighting HOV Lane Fine, Says Unborn Child Counts As A Passenger | Carscoops carscoops
The incident occurred on June 29 when 34-year-old Brandy Bottone was driving on U.S. Highway 75 South. Bottone was on the way to pick up her young son and decided to take the, Bottone said that the officer looks inside her car and asked, “Is there anybody else in the car?” She responded by pointing to her stomach and saying “Well, yes, my baby girl is right here. She is a person.
Speaking on the matter, spokeswoman for Texas Alliance for Life, an anti-abortion group, Amy O’Donnell, said that local laws were quite clear. “While the penal code in Texas recognizes an unborn child as a person in our state, the Texas Transportation Code does not specify the same,” she said. “And a child residing in a mother’s womb is not taking up an extra seat. And with only one occupant taking up a seat, the car did not meet the criteria needed to drive in that lane.”Images via SounderBruce and Coolcaesar/WikiMedia Commons
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