White Privilege At Its Worst: Texas Pregnant Woman's HOV Ticket Sparks Unborn Debate!

Dallas mom to be uses the Texas law making a fetus a life as an excuse to get out of ticket. 

A white (Hispanic) woman got a ticket in Dallas after being caught driving in the HOV lane of the Central Expressway (U.S. Highway 75). A Dallas County Sheriff pulled her over and her excuse was priceless. I don't know her politics but it seems like she is going to exploit the overturning of abortion rights. It might be a silent protest or a pro-life stance. 

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, she told the deputy that her fetus is considered a passenger and it should be allowed. The deputy did not buy that bullshit and cited her for unauthorized travel in the high occupancy lane. Now she is fighting the $215 fine and a Republican state lawmaker wants to back her bid.

It is the aftermath of a polarizing decision by the Supreme Court. The 6-3 decision has now allowed many states to now authorize abortion bans.

It also allowed state lawmakers to make stupid laws in regards of this.

Brandy Bottone, 32, of Plano, was pulled over June 29 after she drove in an HOV lane, or high-occupancy vehicle land, NBC-Dallas Fort Worth reported.

Bottone, who was 34 weeks pregnant at the time, told the officers that with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, her unborn child now was recognized as a living person. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24.

'And then I said, ‘Well [I’m] not trying to throw a political mix here, but with everything going on, this counts as a baby,'" Bottone told NBC-Dallas-Fort Worth.

Bottone told The Dallas Morning News that the officer told her he didn't "want to deal with this" and insisted that the law for HOV lanes required there to be "two persons outside of the body."

Although the penal code in Texas recognizes a fetus as a person, it appears there's no language in the state Transportation Department's code that recognizes a fetus as a person or a passenger.

Representatives for sheriff’s department and the state Transportation Department didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Deputies told Bottone that if she fought the ticket, it would likely be dismissed. She plans to fight the $215 ticket with the argument that her in-utero baby should count as another occupant of her vehicle.

"This has my blood boiling. How could this be fair? According to the new law, this is a life," Bottone told The Morning News. "I know this may fall on deaf ears, but as a woman, this was shocking."