A pregnant woman fights Texas anti-abortion law without realizing it

This is a unique situation in American jurisprudence. A few days ago, a future mother, Brandy Bottone, who lives in Plano, Texas, was fined $ 275 (over € 200) for using a carpool lane when not sharing her vehicle, as required by law for that purpose.

Anti-abortion law in Texas: the confusion is total

Arrested by a police officer, Brandy Bottone justified his gesture by explaining that there were two people in the car, she and her future unborn granddaughter.

Arrested by an officer, he described the scene to the Dallas Morning News:

He {the police officer} looked around. He said “is it just you? And I said,” No, there are two of us. “And he said,” Well, where is the other person? “And I said” right here “pointing to my belly.

(…) I stated that he was a living child, and this is the case if we are to believe everything that has been said about the abrogation of Roe v. Wade “

For Brandy Bottone, since the revocation by the Supreme Court of the sentence guaranteeing the right to abortion, her 34-week fetus at the material time is considered a full person, and can therefore be counted in the cabin.

This was not the opinion of the police officer, who fined her for failing to comply with the Texas Transportation Code, a fine she intends to rebut. Indeed, the Texas Penal Code defines an “individual” as a ” living human being, including the unborn child at every stage of gestation, from fertilization to birth “.

Despite this event, Brandy Bottone explains that she doesn’t call herself “pro-choice”. In the columns of the Washington Post she would have added:

The laws don’t all speak the same language, it’s very confusing. I think women should be able to choose what to do with their bodies, but that doesn’t mean I’m in favor of choosing. I didn’t drive that way because of Roe v. Wade, but only because it was about me and another person.

Anti-abortion law in Texas: what if it goes further?

What if pregnant people could benefit from the aberration, injustice and ridicule of this law?

In the answers below a tweet shared by the Le coin des LGBT + accountideas flow.

Some suggest that, since the Supreme Court wants to impose the thought of the existence and consideration of the embryo as a living being and this, from conception, that it can also go all the way to its approach and propose a tax quota from conception, but also access to health and life insurance from conception, as well as the payment of alimony as soon as the egg is fertilized.

In another answer under the Twitter post, an interesting question is asked: whether when a pregnant person is killed, the offender can be charged with double homicide, even if the pregnant person was only in the early stage of his pregnancy?

Ref Brandy Bottone and the challenge to her fine, the trial is scheduled for July 20, 2022. Will it be the first of a series of such challenges, which will highlight the inconsistencies and injustices of this new anti-abortion law? We will see.

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