Brandy Bottone was recently driving on the highway in Dallas when she was stopped by a police officer at a checkpoint to see if there were at least two occupants per vehicle, as prescribed on the affected rush hour lane.
“Are you the only one or is someone else riding with you?” the officer asked, before replying, “Oh, there’s two of us.” When the officer asked where the second person was, she pointed to her stomach. The officer said the two people must be outside the body.
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In Texas, a fetus is basically seen as a person. This has to do with abortion laws in the US. Since a Supreme Court ruling, every state has the right to decide how to deal with abortion. In Texas, abortion rules are now very strict. See more about this in the box below.
Person or not, the Texas traffic police fined Bottone at least $215 for driving alone in a lane where you are only allowed to drive with more people, writes the Dallas Morning News.
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The woman is now going to court to challenge the fine. She thinks it’s a twilight zone and that the state has double standards.
Experts say in de Washington Post that she probably has little chance, because it is clearly stated in the traffic law that you must be in the car with more than two physical persons. “But maybe there is a judge who will reward her creativity,” a lawyer told the newspaper.
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Abortion in VS
Roe vs. Wade is a household name in the US and synonymous with the right to abortion across the country. The Supreme Court ruled in the Roe v. Wade argued that most of the laws prohibiting abortion violated women’s constitutional rights to privacy.
Jane Roe was an alias for a Texas woman, Norma McCorvey, who wanted an abortion after she was unmarried and pregnant with her third child. Henry Wade was the state’s attorney in Texas, where abortion was banned. McCorvey had her child during the case and gave it up for adoption.
Jane Roe became the heroine of the pro-abortion movement because of the ruling, but later took a huge turn. She had, as she herself said, ‘seen the light’, became deeply religious and spoke out against abortion, euthanasia and same-sex marriage. Norma McCorvey passed away in 2017 at the age of 69.
The Roe vs. Wade bill was overturned by the Supreme Court last month, allowing states to determine how strict they are about abortion. In conservative states, such as Texas, abortion was almost immediately made illegal.
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