{"id":122356,"date":"2024-02-27T07:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/an-insane-missouri-law-prevents-pregnant-women-from-getting-divorced-even-if-theyre-victims-of-domestic-violence\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T07:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T07:05:21","slug":"an-insane-missouri-law-prevents-pregnant-women-from-getting-divorced-even-if-theyre-victims-of-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/an-insane-missouri-law-prevents-pregnant-women-from-getting-divorced-even-if-theyre-victims-of-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"An Insane Missouri Law Prevents Pregnant Women From Getting Divorced\u2014Even If They\u2019re Victims of Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Something you might need picked up on during the last a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/tommy-tuberville-alabama-embryos-ruling-ivf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weeks<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/06\/the-supreme-court-has-struck-down-roe-v-wade-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">years<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/05\/samuel-alito-roe-v-wade-abortion-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">centuries<\/a> is that there are a disturbing variety of individuals in energy who will go to nice lengths to manage girls in America. Not satisfied? Thinking of citing the truth that in some nations, girls are stoned to demise (as if that makes what occurs right here okay)? Then we\u2019d prefer to make you conscious of a legislation in Missouri that claims pregnant girls can not break up finalized in the event that they\u2019re pregnant\u2014even when mentioned pregnant persons are victims of home violence.<\/p>\n<p>That legislation has been on the books since 1973 and was <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/verify\/government-verify\/no-you-cannot-get-a-divorce-finalized-while-pregnant-in-missouri\/536-cc32f6a7-1351-4b4c-bac3-702050be4488\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/verify\/government-verify\/no-you-cannot-get-a-divorce-finalized-while-pregnant-in-missouri\/536-cc32f6a7-1351-4b4c-bac3-702050be4488&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/verify\/government-verify\/no-you-cannot-get-a-divorce-finalized-while-pregnant-in-missouri\/536-cc32f6a7-1351-4b4c-bac3-702050be4488\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amended<\/a> in 2016. It\u2019s within the information now as a result of state consultant <strong>Ashley Aune<\/strong> is horrified. She <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article285138177.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article285138177.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article285138177.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> laws earlier this month that may undo what she referred to as an \u201carchaic loophole.\u201d Speaking to <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/fox4kc.com\/news\/missouri-law-says-pregnant-women-cant-get-divorced\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/fox4kc.com\/news\/missouri-law-says-pregnant-women-cant-get-divorced\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox4kc.com\/news\/missouri-law-says-pregnant-women-cant-get-divorced\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox4KC<\/a>, Aune, a Democrat, mentioned, \u201cI just want moms in difficult situations to get out if they need to. This is something that was brought to me by folks in my community who shared that it was a huge problem,\u201d Aune mentioned. In a committee assembly, she shared the story of a lady affected by the present legislation, saying: \u201cNot only was she being physically and emotionally abused, but there was reproduction coercion used. When she found out she was pregnant and asked a lawyer if she could get a divorce, she was essentially told no. It was so demoralizing for her to hear that. She felt she had no options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Aune instructed <em>The<\/em> <em>Kansas City Star<\/em> she first heard concerning the legislation from Synergy Services, which supplies companies to home violence survivors. <strong>Sara Brammer,<\/strong> the group\u2019s vice chairman of home violence, instructed the outlet the legislation \u201cputs families in a bad position\u201d by dragging out the separation course of and places abuse victims in significantly harmful positions. <strong>Matthew Huffman<\/strong>, who works for the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic &amp; Sexual Violence, instructed Fox4KC that Aune\u2019s laws \u201ccould literally save lives&#8230;. For abusive partners, they might be using reproductive coercion and control to keep their partner pregnant so that they can\u2019t ever actually be granted a divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Noting the truth that Missouri has successfully banned all abortion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/missouri-senate-votes-against-allowing-abortion-in-cases-of-rape-and-incest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">together with in circumstances of rape and incest<\/a>, Aune mentioned this month: \u201cIn a state where we are currently forcing women to carry babies to term, I think it\u2019s important that, you know, women who are in that position who are also looking to get out of a marriage have the capacity to do so.\u201d\u00a0And but, she doesn&#8217;t have excessive hopes that her invoice will land on Missouri governor <strong>Mike Parson<\/strong>\u2019s desk this legislative session. State senator <strong>Denny Hoskins,<\/strong> a Republican, instructed <em>The Kansas City Star<\/em> that whereas he can be okay to permit divorces within the case of abuse, i.e., probably the most excessive circumstances, he&#8217;s not in favor of letting simply any pregnant individual resolve what to do with their lives. \u201cJust because the husband and wife are not getting along, or irreconcilable differences, I would not consider that that would be a good reason to get divorced during a pregnancy,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Surprise: Republicans who declare to help IVF backed a life-at-conception invoice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It\u2019s nearly as if these persons are big hypocrites. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/02\/25\/ivf-republicans-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed\">\n<div class=\"BlockquoteEmbedContent-esRbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__content\">\n<p>Prominent congressional Republicans are popping out in help of in vitro fertilization days after the\u00a0Alabama state Supreme Court dominated that frozen embryos are individuals\u00a0and subsequently that somebody may be held chargeable for destroying them. But lots of the similar Republicans who&#8217;re saying Americans ought to have entry to IVF have cosponsored laws that employs an argument much like the one the Alabama Supreme Court utilized in its ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The congressional proposal, referred to as the\u00a0Life at Conception Act, defines a \u201chuman being\u201d to \u201cinclude each member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization or cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.\u201d The invoice would additionally present equal safety beneath the 14th Amendment \u201cfor the right to life of each born and preborn human person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Something you might need picked up on during the last a number of weeks\/years\/centuries is that there are a disturbing variety of individuals in energy who will go to nice lengths to manage girls in America. Not satisfied? 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