Brandy Bottone of Plano, Texas, persists and wants to challenge a ticket for driving with only one passenger in a special lane reserved for cars with many passengers. That reports the American NBC News. In those cars there must be at least two or three people in the car pool lane in question. The pregnant woman feels that she is completely within her rights. She was 34 weeks pregnant at the time of her arrest.
When an officer asked where her second required passenger was, she indicated that her baby counts, citing the new abortion regulations in Texas — following a Supreme Court ruling. “This child is alive, I don’t understand why you don’t see that,” said the woman. But the officer replied that the passenger must live outside her body in order to count and fined the woman $275. She had to pick up her son and didn’t want to be late.
“My blood is boiling. How can this be fair? Under the new law, my baby counts as a living being. As a human being,” she told American media after the incident. According to legal experts, this is a unique case and different judges can handle the case in completely different ways. “This is uncharted territory,” Chad Ruback, a Dallas attorney. Bottone is due to appear in court on July 20.