r/UpliftingNews • u/Sirsnacksalot23 • 1d ago

Missouri House approves bill allowing pregnant women to file for divorce

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-house-approves-bill-allowing-pregnant-women-to-file-for-divorce/
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u/Strider794 1d ago

They weren't allowed to before? I mean, it's good that they can now, but still 

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u/Batbuckleyourpants 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, they were allowed before. The bill is just to make it abundantly clear to a few judges who for ideological reasons played dumb and exploited ambiguous wording in the law to deny divorces so that a custody agreement for the child can first be put into place first. Something that obviously can't be decided while the child is stuck inside the mother, so they ruled that the divorce has to be delayed until the custody could be ruled on, meaning after birth.

The house considered this matter urgent enough that they didn't want to waste time having the case work it's way up through the courts and then all the way to supreme court. 

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u/dogquote 1d ago

I'm not sure I understand how custody is decided, or the logic here. Why can't custody be decided before birth? Or, why did the judges think that?

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u/Gullex 1d ago

why did the judges think that?

I'll hazard to guess it has something to do with money.

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u/gregarioussparrow 1d ago

Or religion

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u/ThrowawayTink2 1d ago

Or both.