Virtually all abortions in the state will become illegal in the coming weeks after the US Supreme Court overturned the ruling it made in a 1973 case known as\u00a0Roe v Wade<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Five days after the decision, Brandy Bottone was pulled over in a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane.<\/p>\n “I said, ‘Well, not trying to throw a political mix here, but with everything going on, this counts as a baby’,” she said, pointing to her belly.<\/p>\n Ms Bottone, who was eight months pregnant when she was stopped, is planning to contest the ticket in court next week.<\/p>\n “I was driving to pick up my son,” she said.<\/p>\n “I knew I couldn’t be a minute late, so I took the HOV lane.”<\/p>\n Bottone said she’s not taking a stand for or against abortion – but the law should be uniform.<\/p>\n “If there’s a pro-women category, that’s my stance,” she said.<\/p>\n “One law is saying that this is a baby and now he’s telling me this baby that’s jabbing my ribs is not a baby,” the 32-year-old said. “Why can’t it all make sense?”<\/p>\n Dallas attorney Chad Ruback said her argument is not as far-fetched as one might think.<\/p>\n “I find her argument creative, but I don’t believe based on the current itineration of Texas Transportation Code that her argument would likely succeed in front of an appellate court,” he told the Washington Post.<\/p>\n “That being said, it’s entirely possible she could find a trial court judge who would award her for her creativity.”<\/p>\n A judge rejected a similar claim in 2006, saying the rules were designed to fill empty seats in a vehicle.<\/p>\n Republican state representative Brian Harrison said he plans to introduce legislation to clarify that unborn babies should be treated as passengers.<\/p>\n “Unborn babies are persons (meaning they’re also passengers), and should be treated accordingly under Texas laws,” he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n Source: \u00a0![\"Sky](\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"){kind=logo}
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