If you’re pregnant, you can now use the High Occupancy Vehicle or HOV lanes in Georgia. The state’s restrictive abortion law now recognizes embryos and fetuses as persons with full rights.
The official Georgia Department of Public Safety requirements on HOV lane usage used to say “vehicles with two or more (living and not pre-infant) persons” are allowed to ride in them.
After a federal appeals court ruled on July 20, that Georgia’s restrictive abortion law can go into effect, it took DPS some time to remove the phrase “living and not pre-infant” from the requirements.
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