Texas wants to have it both ways.

[Towlie]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/09/texas-abortion-pregnant-woman-hov-bottone/

Brandy Bottone was recently driving down Central Expressway in Dallas when she was stopped by a sheriff’s deputy at an HOV checkpoint to see whether there were at least two occupants per vehicle as mandated. When the sheriff looked around her car last month, she recounted to The Washington Post that he asked, “Is it just you or is someone else riding with you?”

“I said, ‘Oh, there’s two of us,’” Bottone said. “And he said, ‘Where?’”

Bottone, who was 34 weeks pregnant at the time, pointed to her stomach. Even though she said her “baby girl is right here,” Bottone said one of the deputies she encountered on June 29 told her it had to be “two bodies outside of the body.” While the state’s penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, the Texas Transportation Code does not.

[BlueBloodedAmerican]

1. Brandy is a good friend of my niece, who also lives in Dallas.

The ticket for her “offense” is $215. She is going to fight it in court and use their insistence that her unborn baby is indeed a second person in her car against them. Ironically, July 20 is both her court date and due date.

[Frasier Balzov]

2. Slam dunk not guilty!

[DBoon]

3. the point of HOV lanes is to reduce the number of cars on the road

so the second person should at least be old enough to legally drive, if not an actual licensed driver

That is, if they were thinking logically

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Fuck that, logical thinking would not have led to Dobbs.

Of course the point is not to actually prove unborns are a second person for driving.

The idea is to make the christofascists chip away at the bullshit position that life begins at conception.

They will of course determine that unborns are not really consider children at all for purposes for insurances, driving regs, etc.

[DBoon]

5. Could airlines charge for a second ticket for a 6-week+ fetus?

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Politicians might well cough up that benefit for somthin in the reelection campigan coffers.