State representative Ashley Aune is trying to fight it, but doesn’t have high hopes.

Something you might have picked up on over the last several weeks/years/centuries is that there are a disturbing number of people in power who will go to great lengths to control women in America. Not convinced? Thinking of citing the fact that in some countries, women are stoned to death (as though that makes what happens here okay)? Then we’d like to make you aware of a law in Missouri that says pregnant women cannot get a divorce finalized if they’re pregnant—even if said pregnant people are victims of domestic violence.

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    4 months ago

    Possibly related note: Jesus’s rules on divorce do not permit a woman to leave an abusive marriage.

    Citation needed por favor.

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      4 months ago

      Sermon on the Mount. It is right there in Matthew. Most famous speech he supposedly gave.

      If you are curious both it and the Sermon on the plain probably came from the same document that is lost to us.

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          But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.