A woman in Texas is arguing that if the Supreme Court views the foetus inside her uterus as a human life, then that logic should also apply to the rules of the road, or more specifically, the car-pool lane.
On 29 June, just five days after the Supreme Court voted to overturnRoe v Wade, the 1973 decision that had affirmed the constitutional right to abortion across the country, Brandy Bottone, who is 34 weeks pregnant, found herself getting stopped by police after she exited the high-occupancy vehicle lane (HOV) with just herself in the car.
