The statute, which can lead to reproductive coercion in a state that has banned abortion, has recently gained nationwide attention
At six months pregnant, H decided enough was enough. She had endured years of abuse from her husband and had recently discovered he was also physically violent towards her child. She contacted an attorney to help her get a divorce.
But she was stopped short. Her lawyer told her that she could not finalize a divorce in Missouri because she was pregnant. “I just absolutely felt defeated,” she said. H returned to the house she shared with her abuser, sleeping in her child’s room on the floor and continuing to face violence. On the night before she gave birth, she slept in the most secure room in the house: on the tile floor in the basement, with the family’s dogs.
Under a Missouri statute that has recently gained nationwide attention, every petitioner for divorce is required to disclose their pregnancy status. In practice, experts say, those who are pregnant are barred from legally dissolving their marriage. “The application [of the law] is an outright ban,” said Danielle Drake, attorney at Parks & Drake. When Drake learned her then husband was having an affair, her own divorce stalled because she was pregnant. Two other states have similar laws: Texas and Arkansas.
America has some serious vindictive fucks running the country
i say we kill em
I can’t imagine how mean our government/culture must look to people who live in reasonable developed societies elsewhere. It looks insane from inside the country, and we’re the ones used to it and often related to the vindictive fucks’ voters!
Number one cause of death of pregnant people in the US is murder. I wonder what the rates are like in these states versus others.
What the actual fuck is wrong with these people? They aren’t even trying to hide the endgame here.
I guess it’s time for blue states to start negating residency requirements for divorce. Just another step towards balkanization.
What even is the endgame here though?
So I get conservatives want many babies but without providing any care or (especially) pay, perfectly fuels their pockets this way. But how does this work to their advantage? You just get more abuse this way. How the fuck does that help in their baby factoring scheme?
Seriously? The endgame is clear. Reduce access to education, force people to have kids that will be born in that environment and raise an ignorant neglected bigoted class that is easily controlled and manipulated.
Biblical law.
Broken homes feed into the prison-industrial complex, the only remaining form of slavery currently allowed in our country? It’s not just about the babies. You need to make sure they end up poor, desperate, and too broken to hope for better as adults.
It’s easier to manipulate uneducated people into voting against their interests as well, so they want them poor and uneducated
What even is the endgame here though?
Suffering. Suffering is the endgame. They get off by causing those they feel are lesser to suffer as much as they can.
What even is the endgame here though?
Control. Power. Compelled obedience.
Never assume that there’s an endgame. Some people just like watching others suffer.
Life is a journey, not a destination. <3
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the endgame is when they start saying “well I didn’t think they were gonna do that” and acting all innocent as their fascist rhetoric turns the country into a fascist hellhole thanks to their violent dipshittery
if yall dont start killing them, i have no pity for you. there is no other way.
Disgusting
What is wrong with these people?
We need to start an organization that helps to rehome any woman in one of these states to a state with sane laws.
I feel truly sorry for the women who have been brainwashed since birth to agree with these laws that subjugate them, and continue to vote for the people passing them.
Another flyover State…but it’s Boeing so I ain’t going.
tardmerica strikes again
who can stop them in their spree of retardation??
I don’t particularly like calling christofascists that. They know exactly what they are doing.
you can. buy guns.
Build guillotines
This isn’t new - it’s the case in multiple states and has been for a while. The justification is that usually the husband is assumed to be the “father” for the purpose of the birth certificate. It’s bullshit but Y’all’queda has been running Missouri for a loooong time
If this had been a law for me, I and my children might very well be dead now.
Everyone needs to realize white supremacists have disguised themselves as Christians to push white supremacy ideology. These are not Christians
They absolutely are true christians.
They absolutely are and Christians were much worse towards women before social progress forced them to change their official positions or become irrelevant.
It is now apparent that they never really changed their ideas.
This looks like words straight out of the Bible to me. Any Christian saying this isn’t Christianity is the one that isn’t a true Christian.
No many of them are. They just don’t represent all chsitians.
Just divest yourself from religion, it’s only used for corruption
I’ve never been religious
Nor be they Scottsmen
A true follower is so rare as to be virtually extinct. Think of these church mega pastors with hundred million dollar net worths. What would jesus do with that money? Probably give it all away to feed starving children all around the world. Every penny, probably to the point of only having two articles of clothing and driving around in a van lol. Christians are such hypocrites.
Also, he probably would’ve voted for Bernie haha. Not kidding though.
jesus wouldn’t have it in the first place and that is the sole and only point. To have accumulated dragon-level wealth is to have been an evil fucker. Period!
Yeah, no, fuck that. christianity is completely at fault here, from the raping of children to the rape of democracy and the cocksucking of the cheetoh. Fuck you for yet more pretending
You have as much hate in your heart as they do. I know several Christians, they’ve all maintained the same character and demeanor as they always have. Every single one acts the same. Did Christians suddenly change or did white supremacists join their ranks and try to blend in?
Ahh, so we’re going to play the Christian version of “no true Scotsman”?
I have two problems with this. (1) Logically speaking that can’t be true. The guy who wrote the bulk of the Constitution was a Christian. Sure you can argue that the government had non-Christian voices like Jefferson but it’s not like the US had a Hindu majority (or something) at the time. (2) It would be easier to understand what went wrong with Evangelism and right wing media then to try to get the majority of the country to hate Christianity. Don’t divide the people over religion; you force them to live by their words.
I’m a guy and I’m here to say that my wife is angry about this. Hold on let me tell her to stop tapping and wash the dishes and feed the kids!.. anyway, yes we want their rights back! 😜
C’mon chicks…revolt! I’m just being sarcastic plus I would never call anyone a chick. But yeah, fuck yeah revolt! WTF!
I was wanting to move to Missouri so my commute to work wouldn’t be as long as it is but every time I hear something of the states politics recently it’s something horrible
I live in Kansas and it’s freakin bizarre to look across the state line and realize I’m living in the less crazy state. Missouri just went straight off the rails in the past 20 years.
Where did this shift of this country becoming full evil? It felt like people were learning to be more empathic then a huge sudden turn the other way.
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There was a big shift after 9/11 that kept growing and amplifying
Edit: hate breeds and fosters hate. 9/11 injected a lot of hate
This goes back to the 70s at least. Desegregation and the sexual revolution really pissed off conservatives. They saw how the court was expanding rights and realized the power controlling the courts allowed. Since then their project has been to seize control of the judicial system by any means necessary.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-takeover-american-politics
This is what you’re probably referring to.
Oh. So it’s innate. Neat.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
It’s always been a feature which boiled up to the civil war, but instead of actually solving the issue, we kept kicking the can down the road. This is the government of stakeholders, just because on paper we broadened the election rights to a larger pool of people, doesn’t mean your vote means anything in who gets paid and who’s interest gets represented. That being said, plz vote D in the general. Just go read the project 2025 if you’re not convinced.
and the only way you can stop it? bullets.
i too, once naively believed i lived in a unique time and that my generation would be the one to break the cycle. now i realize that only bullets can stop the cycle.
What’s next? Gonna take away her ability to have her own credit card and bank account unless a man signs for her like we did in the ‘70s?
Yes, actually. Conservatives believe women are property to be controlled. Misogyny has always been a core tenet of U.S. conservatism. This is just who conservatives are.
If they keep getting their way it probably actually is
But they can still backseat drive right? No? Sorry honey! I’m gonna have to put a gag on you while we drive over to your sister’s…
Bad and naughty birds get the helmet of blindness.
Isn’t this a TV series on netflix… Oh yeah The Handmaid’s Tale…
Blessed be the fruit.
