Nearly 22.5 million women now live in a state where they legally cannot go through with a divorce while pregnant

[RandySF]

Four states restrict divorce during pregnancy, and, with a decision by the Arizona Supreme Court this week, now all four also have near-total bans on abortion.

It’s a combination that can be fatal, say experts on domestic violence.

A study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons found that states that restricted abortion access from 2018 to 2020 had a 75 percent higher rate of peripartum homicide — people who were killed while pregnant or in their first year after giving birth — than states without restrictions. The same trend did not hold in homicide rates for men. Firearms were used in 63 percent of all peripartum homicides. These statistics underscore the connection between reproductive rights, domestic violence and gun violence in the United States.

Arizona’s abortion law, passed in 1864, was upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday. It had been blocked for years by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade but was brought back into the spotlight after its overturn in 2022. State legislators tried Wednesday to repeal the law ,but were blocked by Republican leadership.






https://19thnews.org/2024/04/states-abortion-bans-divorce-restrictions-domestic-violence/

[niyad]

1. FUCK THE GODDAMNED WOMAN-HATING GESTATIONAL SLAVERS!!!

[chowder66]

7. Abso-fucking-lutely!

[paleotn]

2. This is where the GQP wants to take all of us.

The Dem's 2024 election strategy writes itself.

[Lovie777]

3. This is abuse................................

[Freethinker65]

4. What if the husband isn't the one that fertilized the egg?

Wouldn't the woman in this case partly belong to her lover? Obviously in these States pregnant women have given up their rights because of the fertilized egg, and that fertilized egg has more rights than she does, but the fertilized egg isn't even her husband's. Obviously it is up to the sperm donor to decide what is best for his fertilized egg and that donor should decide if a divorce is what's best.

Obviously I am not serious, but this is insanity.

[usaf-vet]

5. Seriously, it sounded like a legitimate story to me. Nothing is too crazy for the world we currently live in.

[dlk]

6. Having formerly lived on one of those states

The reasons given for these laws are that until the birth, it is unknown if the child survives or will have any special medical needs. Theoretically, child support is based on the needs of the child, however, that isn't generally what I've seen actually happens.

Of course, a divorce can be bifurcated, the couple divorced, and the settlement finalized after the birth. That takes more time and higher legal fees, though.