PLANO, Texas — The pregnant Texas woman whose decision to contest a traffic ticket put her in the middle of the abortion debate has given birth.
"My second passenger has arrived!" Bottone wrote on Instagram."We are so in love and will be spending all our time loving on baby girl."
"I kind of sat back and said, 'Okay, well, I'm not trying to make a political stance here, but with everything that's going on, you realize that this is definitely a baby and that counts as a person," said Bottone, referring to the June 24 decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, giving power back to states to determine abortion rights.
During her traffic stop, Bottone said she was issued a $275 ticket for being a single occupant in an HOV lane. She said she's since retained legal counsel and plans to contest the ticket in a court hearing that has yet to be scheduled. Bottone described herself as"pro-women" in the abortion debate, saying,"If that woman feels she needs to make a decision on her body, then that’s her prerogative. I have no rights to tell any woman what to do with their bodies.”
, said she sees the HOV case in Texas as the first of many such debates about the rights of fetuses now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
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