An unusual situation happened in Texas, in the United States. One pregnant woman she used the abortion law to get out of a traffic ticket! What happened was: the woman got a ticket for driving in a lane that is designated for vehicles carrying more than one person. Therefore, when approached by the police, she claimed that her daughter, who was still in her womb, should be counted as a passenger.
Brandy Bottone, the pregnant protagonist of this story, is 32 years old, and the case happened on June 29, when she was fined US$ 275, which is equivalent to more than R$ 1.4 thousand. Bottone is 34 weeks pregnant and claims her daughter should be considered a person even though she is still in her womb, as the constitutional right to abortion has been stripped by the Supreme Court.
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The justification she gave for entering the lane intended for more than one passenger was that she she was late picking up her six-year-old son from school when she was stopped by the police and fined. When the officer asked if there was anyone else in the vehicle, she replied, “Yes. My baby is right here”, pointing to her belly. “She is a person”.
The police officer, not accepting the justification, said that the regulations applied to the track considered as “persons” those “outside the body”, proceeding with the application of the fine.
In an interview with the Washington Post newspaper, the woman, questioning the decision, said that she would have used the law against abortion as an argument against ticket: "I thought [being stopped by the police] was a strange thing and said 'with everything that's going on, especially in Texas, a baby has a person".
Although she used the discussion of legal abortion as an argument, she said that she believes that women she should have the right to choose over her bodies: "That doesn't mean, however, that I'm pro-life either."
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