{"id":167,"date":"2006-01-12T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T14:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/12\/pro-lifers-in-the-carpool-lane\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T14:52:33","slug":"pro-lifers-in-the-carpool-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/12\/pro-lifers-in-the-carpool-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Lifers in the Carpool Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1109'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Arizona, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/0111pregnantHOV.html\">a pregnant women tried to fight a traffic ticket<\/a><br \/>\nfor driving solo in the the carpool lane by claiming that the fetus in<br \/>\nher womb counted as a second passenger (she advanced the theory that<br \/>\nsince Arizona follows the Scott Peterson rule, where a fetus counts as<br \/>\na separate victim of a violent crime, then her fetus should be counted<br \/>\nas a separate person for the purposes of enforcing the carpool<br \/>\nlaw).&nbsp; Arizona Right to Life supported her, but the judge rejected<br \/>\nher argument because carpool laws were designed increase the amount of<br \/>\nspace used in a vehicle, thus, it required a separate and distinct<br \/>\npassenger.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and as follow up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/06#a1104\">this post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/gems\/ecclog\/tedleosinceubeengone.mp3\">here&#8217;s the answer<\/a> (link to mp3) to the question, &#8220;Who is Ted Leo?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Arizona, a pregnant women tried to fight a traffic ticket for driving solo in the the carpool lane by claiming that the fetus in her womb counted as a second passenger (she advanced the theory that since Arizona follows the Scott Peterson rule, where a fetus counts as a separate victim of a violent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}