It's very easy to argue against that logic. The entire point of having a separate HOV lane that moves faster than the other lanes to to incentivize people to share cars who otherwise would not do so. Since it is impossible for a mother and fetus to choose travel in separate cars, considering the fetus as a separate person when defining HOV lanes does not serve this purpose.
I see nothing remotely hypocritical about drafting traffic laws in this way, while simultaneously considering a fetus to have human rights and treating them as a "person" in other medical and legal contexts. Frankly, I think this would be gob-smackingly obvious to everyone involved, if it weren't tied up in a hot culture-war topic.
(Sadly, I feel the need to emphasize that, while I'm personally pro-choice, I'm making no argument here in favor of or against being pro-life or pro-choice. Just that this particular line of argument is really dumb and pointless.)
As I read them, you’re introducing exceptions that Texas “managed lanes” laws don’t have.
Texas law is that “a vehicle occupied by two or more people…may use HOV lanes”. A fetus is not yet a person, but if Texas law says that fetuses are constitutional persons, then how would fetuses not have those rights in this case?
That might be true, as a matter of legal interpretation. If so, that's a solid argument for updating the traffic law with more precise language, but not much else.
HOV lanes should be for car pooling. Therefore to qualify a vehicle should have multiple people who are eligible to drive themselves, i.e. adults. So in this context there should be no debate.
I see nothing remotely hypocritical about drafting traffic laws in this way, while simultaneously considering a fetus to have human rights and treating them as a "person" in other medical and legal contexts. Frankly, I think this would be gob-smackingly obvious to everyone involved, if it weren't tied up in a hot culture-war topic.
(Sadly, I feel the need to emphasize that, while I'm personally pro-choice, I'm making no argument here in favor of or against being pro-life or pro-choice. Just that this particular line of argument is really dumb and pointless.)