A Virginia bill would deem a pregnant person's fetus a passenger in a car, thereby allowing the vehicle to use the car pool lane on highways.
, which a Republican legislator pre-filed in the General Assembly on Tuesday,"provides that a pregnant woman shall be considered two people for the purposes of determining occupancy" in high occupancy vehicle and high occupancy toll lanes on expressways in the state.
also would have allowed a solo pregnant driver to use high occupancy lanes, proposing that the unborn child being carried amounted to a person deserving full human rights.after a pregnant Dallas woman made headlines Like Texas' HB 521, Virginia's HB 1894 is unlikely to advance in the state’s politically split Legislature.
"Anti-abortion groups have been looking for ways to change laws in ways that change the definition of a pregnant person from one person to two," said Elizabeth Nash, an expert on state legislation at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that works to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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