and sometimes trying to flee previously made bad decisions.

I read here a week or so ago that you can’t get a divorce in Missouri if you are pregnant.

And the mens just can’t standz it! Gotta keep them females in line!

No fault works, it's the only thing that resembles fair. Otherwise it's just a race to see who can get the best lawyer first and who can get the dirtiest.

They shouldn’t be forced to stay in an abusive or dominating situation that they don’t want. They may have been strongly coerced into marrying the guy. This is totally about controlling women and NOT about “the sanctity of marriage.” Seems painfully obvious to me what these sanctimonious jerks are up to.

than opposition to abortion is about “sanctity of life”. It’s all of a piece - limiting options in both spaces primarily limits the options of *women* and makes them dependent on, and subordinate to, the “mercies” and whims of men. Its misogyny masquerading as concern.

Women have fought for their rights and it seems some have forgotten that it was suich a short time ago that women didn't have so many fundamental rights they do today.

People don't seem to remember that women couldn't open bank accounts everywhere in the country until 1974. I was alive before that. Think about that, in the 1960s a woman couldn't control their own money without their husband signing for them. It was about control, still is. Abortion is about control too. Until Roe v Wade, an embryo was seen as the property of a man and a woman had no rights to their own body that superseeded a man's rights.

And that's what the GOP wants to go back to. They would take away women's rights to vote if they got the powert to do so. That's the America they want to go back to, where women were second class citizens subordinate in every way to men. Sick.

He was extremely abusive to her and children. She said she learned how to duck a swing pretty quick. He cheated on her a lot. She caught him cheating, and got the courage to get a divorce. She told me she was really scared when she had to face him in court. But she got a divorce and custody of the kids. He never stopped making it tough for her. Years and years ago, but his victims still carry the scars.

No-fault divorce makes it much more difficult for abused people to leave their spouses. And, as you point out, it makes it more difficult for people to get fair settlements.

The high-priced divorce lawyers benefit when it's difficult to get divorced.

The republican party's end game is a nation that looks a lot like Gilead (from The Handmaid's Tale).

That got into trouble a few years back for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex folks.

A nobody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis

Kimberly Jean Davis (née Bailey; born September 17, 1965) is an American former county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, who gained international attention in August 2015 when she defied a U.S. federal court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Davis was elected Rowan County Clerk in 2014. The following year, the Supreme Court decided Obergefell v. Hodges, and all county clerks in Kentucky were ordered to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Citing personal religious objections to same-sex marriage, Davis began denying marriage licenses to all couples to avoid issuing them to same-sex couples. A lawsuit, Miller v. Davis, was filed, and Davis was ordered by the U.S. District Court to start issuing marriage licenses.

She appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the application to appeal was denied. Davis continued to defy the court order by refusing to issue marriage licenses "under God's authority"; she was ultimately jailed for contempt of court due to her refusal "to not interfere with her deputies issuing marriage licenses for gay couples." Speaking on Davis' behalf, her "attorney said Davis 'would not make any representation' that she would allow marriage licenses to be issued, thus not accepting the compromise that would have led to her release.". Davis was released after five days in jail under the condition that she not interfere with the efforts of her deputy clerks, who had begun issuing marriage licenses to all couples in her absence. Davis then modified the Kentucky marriage licenses used in her office so that they no longer mentioned her name.

Davis's actions drew strong and mixed reactions from prominent politicians, legal experts, and religious leaders. Attorney and author Roberta A. Kaplan described Davis as "the clearest example of someone who wants to use a religious liberty argument to discriminate", while law professor Eugene Volokh maintained that an employer must try to accommodate religious employees' beliefs. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said that Davis's imprisonment was part of the "criminalization of Christianity", while Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin compared Davis's refusal to obey the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to Alabama Governor George Wallace's "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" in 1963. A few weeks after her release from jail, Davis met with Pope Francis in Washington, D.C. She was defeated by Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr. in the November 6, 2018, election and vacated the office on January 7, 2019.

Making sure people are free, right?

There’s a stretch!



Honestly, rawstory? Clickity-click…

The same Trump that told Cohen, during hush money payment negotiations to the porn star Trump had been fucking, that if Melania asked for a divorce, he, Trump, wouldn't be on the market for long.

I assume conservative pundits, celebrities, and politicians will continue to be allowed to have as many divorces as they want.

It's time we throw them all out of office.

It's a race to the bottom and everyone is Dick Dasterdly and/or Muttly.

to decide and legislate whether people are making bad personal choices unless they cross the line into illegality.

Couples being forced to stay together because Ben Carson if serious government overreach.

More an more young folks are already drifting away from marriage. My daughter is skeptical of marriage, even with the financial benefits.

If they make divorce hard, fewer young people will choose to get married. That simple. No doubt their next step would be make cohabitation illegal. There are already those who would like to make extra-marital "fornication" illegal.

My wife, fresh off a divorce, was reluctant to marry me. She only agreed because of the benefits (tac, health insurance, etc). Though she is happy to be married to me now, thankfully.

We should force women and children to stay with abusive men.

for these idiots. My first thought was that no one was reading or editing these efforts - but I must correct myself:

These people are proud of shooting puppies and goats. They are proud of cruel ideal and subjugating "others" especially women. They are proud to espouse ideas from the dark ages. Proud!

of maga people won’t like that.

That would tear the family apart.

I'm really getting tired of these Christians.

It was not a happy place. Very dysfunctional to say the least. And had they divorced I wouldn’t have known who to live with, both had issues.

a certain tammy wynette song will soon be will soon be aborted in red state america.

Bad marriages are incredibly harmful to all involved. Marriage brings two personalities together for eternal conflict. Some mesh, and most don't.

the number of women committing suicide, spousal abuse for both men and women, and women being murdered by their partners, but right-wingers don't want to talk about that.

or adopt. Already OB/GYNs are making a rapid exit (or refusing to come to train) in Red anti-abortion states.

They can't even fathom what changes will accompany that, but it will undoubtedly include large companies leaving or refusing to relocate to the state given no employee is going to want to live in an "insane asylum state."

...e.g. Louisiana has the infamous "covenant marriage" law. How does Mr. Carson suggest we make this a nationwide policy? Because I remember that many years ago, Nevada was the place to get a (relatively) easy divorce. (This was long before today, where some version of a "no-fault" divorce law can be found on the books in every state).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_in_the_United_States#20th_century

When will they ever stop? I suspect that they won't, even if they were to somehow miraculously manage to strip every right from every American (voting, choice of religion, job choice, where to live, etc., the list goes on).

Perhaps it should be backwards, if repugs propose one right to yank away from Americans, then they lose a right, the right to vote would be a good place to start, eh, since they seem to not want voting anyhow, being that they're happy w/ a dictator. In addition, I seriously think that we should expand the US Supreme Court finally since it seems that it's too easy to landlock the nine justices that we have, simply by having a senator refuse to rule on a nominee's candidacy for the Supreme Court (Garland) and then it leads to tRUMP putting 3 justices on the roster.

asking for an orange menace

"Your wife is infertile/post-menopausal? You may qualify for a 2nd, younger model! Just make sure you pension the old one off properly."

These so-called men want to live like Biblical or medieval kings.

Regardless, this is so ridiculous with the guy who is running as their candidate.

Jr., Eric, and Ivanka.

Speaking of Carson, here he is in a portrait of himself and Klingon Jesus. This hangs in his house, BTW.

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