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The Houston Chronicle reports:
Is an unborn fetus a human being in the eyes of…Texas traffic laws? A pregnant Dallas-area woman argued as much to police officers after recently being cited for driving alone in the HOV lane.
“I pointed to my stomach and said, ‘My baby girl is right here. She is a person,'” Brandy Bettone said. However the officers were not buying it. “He said, ‘Oh, no. It’s got to be two people outside of the body.'”
Bettone ended up receiving a $215 citation and instructions from the issuing officer suggesting that if she fought it, it would most likely get dropped. The Dallas County Sheriff Department has declined to issue a statement on Bettone’s citation or pregnancy defense.
Read the full article. Bettone says she won’t pay and will pursue her claim in court.
A DFW woman was pulled over and ticketed for driving alone in the HOV lane. She’s 34 weeks pregnant and tells the cop her unborn child counts as a passenger since Roe V. Wade was overturned. The state can’t have it both ways, she argues. https://t.co/eFTvElIMhG
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